Again what is the percentage of green energy for Texas, come on man get on the ball @Raoul2
Radical Raoul i asked you to do one thing and you failed
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cash it's hard to believe that 8% brought down the great state of Texas !
The fact that its that low actually rules it out. The Governor has since come out and accepted resposibility.
Actually Raoul the Governor was clear that all aspects of their grid failed. From traditional to green energy, to machinery, all failed in a very rare winter storm of this magnitude. In a sense I am agreeing with you.
Strangely Iowa and Denmark - two places with lots of wind turbines, don't have this problem. I wonder why.
They were never in it as they don't cross State lines.
The Texas Interconnected System — which for a long time was actually operated by two discrete entities, one for northern Texas and one for southern Texas — had another priority: staying out of the reach of federal regulators. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Power Act, which charged the Federal Power Commission with overseeing interstate electricity sales. By not crossing state lines, Texas utilities avoided being subjected to federal rules. “Freedom from federal regulation was a cherished goal — more so because Texas had no regulation until the 1970s,” writes Richard D. Cudahy in a 1995 article, “The Second Battle of the Alamo: The Midnight Connection.” (Self-reliance was also made easier in Texas, especially in the early days, because the state has substantial coal, natural gas and oil resources of its own to fuel power plants.)
