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That’s the point!  Nobody has a system with 100% backup. What you have is reserve margin which acts as what you’re calling backup. The storm knocked out the reserve margin. There isn’t a system in the US is built to withstand a 4 standard deviation event.  Everybody wants to act like you can just plan to this event, but it doesn’t work that way anywhere in the country.

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No.  What people are saying is that if the generators, in areas like Dallas, had undertaken standard winterization measures and Texas paid for emergency capacity, like the rest of us do, then they would not have been minutes away from a total grid collapse on Sunday.

What this shows is the inherent problems and limitations of an energy only market.   That energy only market is the cause of the problem.  It does not handle emeegency situations very well.[/quote]
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There were several states facing the exact same temperatures, and they all fared better.  So no matter how many standard deviations the pp wants to imply,  :twisted: it's factually wrong to say that nobody else was prepared.  I mean, Louisiana did better.  Let that sink in.[/quote]

No on all counts.

Capacity markets also experience blackouts during extreme weather events (see 2020). Both energy and capacity markets have limitations bc nobody is built to withstand extreme events. The same temps on an objective basis are meaningless in different regions because regional systems are built for regional climates. That Texas could handle 40 straight days over 100F in the summer is meaningless to the fact that the DMV could not handle it bc Texas is built for Texas historical conditions as DMV is built to DMV historical conditions. [/quote]

And yet, no mention that Texas has different climates within it, none of which (except for el paso) were prepared, or the differences between capacity and energy systems.

Texas experimented with energy only and gambled that there would never be abnormal events.  It failed them mightily TWICE because energy only disincentivizes weatherization and excess capacity.  [/quote]

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