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Originally Posted by Shifty86
TX has been closing coal plants while mandating wind/solar. One of the major benefits of coal is the large amount of on-site fuel storage, the same can also be said about Nuclear.
I think you are buying Fox News hype.
That is not the issue in Texas at all.
Texas infrastructure runs predominantly on natural gas and coal. There is no shortage of natural gas or coal stores currently. The problem is the infrastructure to deliver it has frozen up and the energy cannot be processed or flow.
If there was never such a thing as a single wind or solar investment in Texas over the last decade they would be no better off now.
Diversifying the grid has zero downside and only upside in that if one or more streams goes offline hopefully the other can compensate.
In this case wind and solar could not compensate but that does not mean a less diverse grid with more gas, coal and nuclear would have done better as they failed also.