Study released by UNiversity of Texas.
It's also interactive, change the tax or subsidy, see a different answer.
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FYI: The cheapest source of power for Dallas County today is Wind.
in this freeze wave, whether natural gas or electricity is used to heat homes does not matter, as much as the natural gas is being used to heat homes.northsouth wrote:Except that by far the main loss of power has been from natural gas plants, partially from more gas being used for home heating than usual, but also because wells are getting blocked by ice. Can't deny that some turbines have frozen, but wind is still producing about as expected for these conditions, and solar is actually overperforming.
Some numbers: https://twitter.com/cohan_ds/status/1361346284230234112
True. But nobody notices or cares as long as the electricity is available. It must be available, 24 hours a day every day of the year, forever. Brownouts from a heat wave or deep freeze is a symptom of recent political developments discouraging one source of energy from all others.Hannibal Lecter wrote:The question is whether it's worthwhile to spend $50-100 billion to be ready for a once per 40-100 year event.
It's like the concept of the 100-year flood plain. Society picks the balance between cost and safety that it's willing to live with.
The ability to move around natural gas is the reason why there was blackouts. But not because there isn’t enough pipelines. Texas already has a high concentration of pipelines. As shown below. But rather its frozen compressor stations that distribute the gas. Exposed pipes without insulation froze in place. ERCOT already expected wind and solar to drop off during winter, but they didnt expect natural gas and coal to drop off. The problem is lack of proper insulation, some refer to as « winterizing » the equipment.electricron wrote:True. But nobody notices or cares as long as the electricity is available. It must be available, 24 hours a day every day of the year, forever. Brownouts from a heat wave or deep freeze is a symptom of recent political developments discouraging one source of energy from all others.Hannibal Lecter wrote:The question is whether it's worthwhile to spend $50-100 billion to be ready for a once per 40-100 year event.
It's like the concept of the 100-year flood plain. Society picks the balance between cost and safety that it's willing to live with.
Unacceptable sources from the greens: nuclear, coal, natural gas, fuel oil, ethanol, wind farms, just about everything but solar. Even solar has distractors because how un-environmental friendly storage batteries are.
You can not have something if you do not like how that something is made. And I will repeat, the reason natural gas fueled generators dropped off line had nothing to do with the availability of natural gas in the ground, but in the ability to move it from fields to the power plants. Additional pipelines are needed.