[peterwoerner]

There were no major causes it was a systemetic failure across all sectors due to nothing being winterized. Gas failed, coal failed, wind failed, solar failed, the grid failed. Its politics to point only at gas or only at renewables, it was systematic, which might be what you are saying.

[simonh]

Sure, that’s fair, I’m just saying the biggest single reason for losing power was gas plant failures. I’m refuting the idea that that was a particular failure of renewables. I would agree supply continuity means renewables are not usually a complete solution, but that’s a very different argument and not relevant to this incident.

[edbob]

You say that 40% of the gas plants failed. I'm sure you're also aware that wind was only able to produce 15-25% of its capacity, and it was at the lower end of that range during the cold nights when temperatures were below 0°F. Your framing in the GGP makes it sound like everything can be blamed on gas plants, and completely ignores wind output collapsing to 15% of capacity. As a world leader in wind capacity, we can't just ignore our abysmal wind generation situation by pointing fingers at other energy sources which performed much better relative to their share of capacity.