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<blockquote data-quote="sl1000794" data-source="post: 346199" data-attributes="member: 6974"><p>Not true; ps: It wasn't a few years back, it was in Feb. 2021.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit">By some estimates, nearly half of the state’s natural gas production has screeched to a halt due to the extremely low temperatures, while freezing components at natural gas-fired power plants have forced some operators to shut down.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit">“Texas is a gas state,” said Michael Webber, an energy resources professor at the University of Texas at Austin. While he said all of Texas’ energy sources share blame for the power crisis <em>— at least one nuclear power plant has partially shut down, most notably <em>— the natural gas industry is producing significantly less power than normal.</em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"><em><em></em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit">It’s estimated that about 80% of the grid’s capacity, or 67 gigawatts, could be generated by natural gas, coal and some nuclear power. Only 7% of ERCOT’s forecasted winter capacity, or 6 gigawatts, was expected to come from various wind power sources across the state.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit">Woodfin said Tuesday that 16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, are offline and that 30 gigawatts of thermal sources, which include gas, coal and nuclear energy, are offline.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/" target="_blank">https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sl1000794, post: 346199, member: 6974"] Not true; ps: It wasn't a few years back, it was in Feb. 2021. [FONT='inherit']By some estimates, nearly half of the state’s natural gas production has screeched to a halt due to the extremely low temperatures, while freezing components at natural gas-fired power plants have forced some operators to shut down.[/FONT] [FONT='inherit']“Texas is a gas state,” said Michael Webber, an energy resources professor at the University of Texas at Austin. While he said all of Texas’ energy sources share blame for the power crisis [I]— at least one nuclear power plant has partially shut down, most notably [I]— the natural gas industry is producing significantly less power than normal. [/I][/I][/FONT] [FONT='inherit']It’s estimated that about 80% of the grid’s capacity, or 67 gigawatts, could be generated by natural gas, coal and some nuclear power. Only 7% of ERCOT’s forecasted winter capacity, or 6 gigawatts, was expected to come from various wind power sources across the state.[/FONT] [FONT='inherit']Woodfin said Tuesday that 16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, are offline and that 30 gigawatts of thermal sources, which include gas, coal and nuclear energy, are offline. [URL]https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/[/URL][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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