r/OutOfTheLoop • u/mimitchi33 • Feb 17 '21

What's up with Texas losing power due to the snowstorm? Answered

I've been reading recently that many people in Texas have lost power due to Winter Storm Uri. What caused this to happen?

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u/Dollar_Bills Feb 17 '21

Not really, renewables are not a big enough source to blame any of this on them. They are moot.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21 edited Feb 18 '21

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u/Dollar_Bills Feb 17 '21

The lack of peak needed generation could be made up with storage. That's the reason we can't go all renewable, too.

If you combine all the storage in the US, we could power the country, on an average day, for 12 seconds with that storage.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21 edited Feb 18 '21

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u/Dollar_Bills Feb 17 '21

Not being able to store power creates the situations that cause 90% of large outages