Friday, February 19, 2021

DID FROZEN WIND TURBINES impact the Texas freeze?

Well, yes ... just not to the extent that seemed apparent at the time. Mostly it's another example of unintended consequences -- in the rush to be environmentally correct, the "what if's" were never properly accounted for.

"All of the above" is a good energy strategy, and it's good risk management to develop compensation strategies for loss of one of the above -- one nuclear power plant, one coal-fired power plant, one natural gas power plant. one transmission line, etc. But one unforseen event affecting individual generators over several thousand square miles?

There's going to have to be a lot of rethinking about risk mitigation strategies for solar power and wind power generation.

Which we won't see. What we will see, I'm sure, is a political Kabuki theater of blame-shifting.

Watch for it.

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