[puppetmaster]

Exactly this.

And as additional food for thought... How many outages can anyone remember that were caused because of lack of generation capacity?

[piperswe]

I (and other Texans) can remember plenty!

[taylodl]

Think about what you're saying. Texas didn't suddenly lose generation capacity that day. Their generation failed to work because it was frozen - and let's be clear: it was the natural gas plants that were the problem. The Texas legislature incentivizes utilities to not winterize their plants, so they don't.

At the time Texas was dealing with frozen power plants there were plenty other colder parts of the country that had their generation, including windmills, running just fine. Let's not pretend the lack of generation capacity caused the problem, because it didn't.

[puppetmaster]

Touché!