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Unreliables causing blackouts: ‘Nearly half of Texas installed wind power generation capacity has been offline because of frozen wind turbines’(climatedepot.com)

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Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

This is a lesson we need to learn. I note that wind turbines in other, more-advanced, states do not seem to be freezing.

wendolynne 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

https://time.com/5939749/texas-storm-power-outage-wind-turbines

JoseDowman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 year ago

This event highlighted the challenges of relying on renewable energy sources like wind power during extreme weather conditions and the importance of maintaining a diverse and reliable energy grid.