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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