Renewables and the Great Texas Blackout: Baker Institute Study Tip-toes to Key Causality
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 29, 2022
“… communications between different regulatory agencies as the event approached were inadequate. Transparency regarding the location of natural gas supply infrastructure was atrocious.”
“Currently Texas is #1 in the nation in terms of existing wind capacity. It is also #1 in terms of planned capacity additions for wind and solar, and #2 in the nation for planned battery capacity additions. However, there is little-to-no planned capacity addition for other forms of dispatchable generation. This could become an issue for reliability.” (Baker Institute, study, below)
There is not only government failure in the quest to address market failure. There is analytic failure in identifying market failure that government is empowered to correct. Restated, problems attributed to markets are often the result of prior government intervention on close inspection.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/30/renewables-and-the-great-texas-blackout-baker-institute-study-tip-toes-to-key-causality/
