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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1017574)	5/24/2017 9:48:51 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) of 1575709

"Wind works only because it is a small portion of our electrical power" I thought it only worked because of physics Bernoulli’s Principle explains lift generation renewableteacher.wordpress.com "is backed up by natural gas turbines" I thought it was the other way around. Texas officials are still trying to get the bottom of what happened last week. But we do know that frigid temperatures caused electricity demand to spike — setting a record for winter demand. Those same freezing temperatures also crippled several large coal-fired plants, while the natural gas plants that were supposed to pick up the slack failed to do the job. At the peak of the crisis, more than 50 power plants — accounting for 7,000 megawatts, or nearly 10 percent of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ total generation capacity — were incapacitated. Clean-energy technologies helped keep the crisis from becoming worse. As Trip Doggett, CEO of ERCOT, told the Texas Tribune, “wind was blowing, and we had often 3,500 megawatts of wind generation during that morning peak, which certainly helped us in this situation.” Message 29912415

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