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Wind has been producing ~1.5 GW less than ERCOT expected for a winter peak event, solar ~1 GW more than expected, & nuclear running 100%. Meanwhile, >30 GW of fossil plants, mostly natural gas, went down. So of course the narrative is -- frozen wind turbines! π€¦ββοΈ
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Correction to my earlier tweet: It appears there was a temporary outage at one of the four nuclear units in Texas, around 6 am Monday, according to this post by @Atomicrod. Others remained at 100% output.
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ERCOT expected to get low capacity factors from wind and solar during winter peak demand. What it didn't expect is >20 GW of outages from thermal (mostly natural gas) power plants.
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#TexasFreeze #RollingBlackouts
Note that ERCOT's worst case scenario, based on 2011 freeze, included 9,509 MW of outages, not the >20,000 MW that's down today. Much deeper freeze this time, and natural gas is scarce given heating needs.
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Although ERCOT only expected 269 MW of solar during winter peak demand, we may actually get over 3,000 MW at times today. That's more solar than existed in ERCOT two years ago.
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#TexasFreeze #RollingBlackouts
Yesterdayβs #rollingblackouts in CA were utterly preventable. We donβt need new technology or taxpayer subsidies. And we can actually *pay* utility customers to solve the problem. @ohmconnect can have 600MW online and ready by next summer. A short thread. 1/7
When dispatched by @California_ISO, @ohmconnectβs 150,000 customers currently reduce demand in California by over 150MW, equivalent to three natural gas peaker power plants. Last year, we paid over $3 million to our Californian customers. 2/7
OhmConnect pays customers to make specific, measurable, and predictable demand reductions at key times, like during #OhmHours. Ohm also directly (and quietly) adjust the energy used by over 50,000 appliances and devices in homes. 3/7
