Texas utilities have two problems that aren't related to renewables:
1) their grid is not connected to grids in other states,
2) most of their natural gas and coal plants aren't winterized.

If the water pipes around the power plant freeze, the plant has to shut down.  And when their plants shut down, they can't buy electricity from other states. That's what's happening.

Just got off of a conference call with one of our Texas clients, and they echoed the same points.  However, this same thing happened to them in 2011, and thier governemt/energy companies did nothing since to correct the situation, so they are understandably not currently happy at the moment with their legislators.  Texas is slowly turning blue, so this isn't a suprize at all, really.

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"Remember Red, Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."  - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

Texas utilities have two problems that aren't related to renewables:
1) their grid is not connected to grids in other states,
2) most of their natural gas and coal plants aren't winterized.

If the water pipes around the power plant freeze, the plant has to shut down.  And when their plants shut down, they can't buy electricity from other states. That's what's happening.

Just got off of a conference call with one of our Texas clients, and they echoed the same points.  However, this same thing happened to them in 2011, and thier governemt/energy companies did nothing since to correct the situation, so they are understandably not currently happy at the moment with their legislators.  Texas is slowly turning blue, so this isn't a suprize at all, really.

My Gawd! PM Generation from Maximo for Oil and Gas has been ignored!

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The whole "green energy" dream is just that... a dream.  As a supplement it's fine, but it is impossible to be 100% "green".  Wind turbines, solar usage, hydro plants still need petroleum to work, and in many cases they are not very efficient.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Someone should tell Alaska that their wind turbines aren’t working. Oh, wait, they are.

Idiots lololololololololololololol

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Someone should tell Alaska that their wind turbines aren’t working. Oh, wait, they are.

Idiots lololololololololololololol

Someone should tell Texas about the working wind turbines in Alaska. I’m sure they’ll get warm just knowing about that.  And you’re calling someone else an idiot!

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

Someone should tell Alaska that their wind turbines aren’t working. Oh, wait, they are.

Idiots lololololololololololololol

Someone should tell Texas about the working wind turbines in Alaska. I’m sure they’ll get warm just knowing about that.  And you’re calling someone else an idiot!

Someone call the burn unit, pyro bunnie on the loose lolololol

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Someone should tell Alaska that their wind turbines aren’t working. Oh, wait, they are.

Idiots lololololololololololololol

Someone should tell Texas about the working wind turbines in Alaska. I’m sure they’ll get warm just knowing about that.  And you’re calling someone else an idiot!

TJ celebrating the death of Rush Limbaugh and getting owned all in the same afternoon. Can we put him in timeout?

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Someone should tell Texas about the working wind turbines in Alaska. I’m sure they’ll get warm just knowing about that.  And you’re calling someone else an idiot!

TJ celebrating the death of Rush Limbaugh and getting owned all in the same afternoon. Can we put him in timeout?

Funny, I don’t feel owned. Did you know there are wind turbines in Antarctica? And they’re turning right now! Someone explain to me how frozen wind turbines are the problem. Please. I’m dying to know.
But not dying as hard as Rush.
Oops, too soon for the snowflakes?

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Someone should tell Alaska that their wind turbines aren’t working. Oh, wait, they are.

Idiots lololololololololololololol

Someone should tell Texas about the working wind turbines in Alaska. I’m sure they’ll get warm just knowing about that.  And you’re calling someone else an idiot!

Do you have to try to miss points or does it come naturally for you?

Those turbines in alaska could help warm up Texas... If the grids were connected.

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

Someone should tell Texas about the working wind turbines in Alaska. I’m sure they’ll get warm just knowing about that.  And you’re calling someone else an idiot!

Do you have to try to miss points or does it come naturally for you?

Those turbines in alaska could help warm up Texas... If the grids were connected.

Are you referring to a method of simplifying the transfer of an energy source from one location to another? Wouldn't the Biden administration just shut that down?

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Do you have to try to miss points or does it come naturally for you?

Those turbines in alaska could help warm up Texas... If the grids were connected.

Are you referring to a method of simplifying the transfer of an energy source from one location to another? Wouldn't the Biden administration just shut that down?

Oh, that’s cold. Know what wouldn’t be cold right now? Texas, if their power grid hadn’t been designed by people with the mental acuity of a playground bully who wanted to make sure they never had to share.

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Someone should tell Texas about the working wind turbines in Alaska. I’m sure they’ll get warm just knowing about that.  And you’re calling someone else an idiot!

Do you have to try to miss points or does it come naturally for you?

Those turbines in alaska could help warm up Texas... If the grids were connected.

You're. The. Last. One. Who. Should. Post. About. Missing. Points.

You have the common sense of a toaster..

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Are you referring to a method of simplifying the transfer of an energy source from one location to another? Wouldn't the Biden administration just shut that down?

Oh, that’s cold. Know what wouldn’t be cold right now? Texas, if their power grid hadn’t been designed by people with the mental acuity of a playground bully who wanted to make sure they never had to share.

Texas is purple, turning blue, I'd imagine the democrat legislators in the state are a big part of it's current condition.

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Do you have to try to miss points or does it come naturally for you?

Those turbines in alaska could help warm up Texas... If the grids were connected.

You're. The. Last. One. Who. Should. Post. About. Missing. Points.

You have the common sense of a toaster..

I have seen some pretty high end toasters who would be offended by your comparison.

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TJ celebrating the death of Rush Limbaugh and getting owned all in the same afternoon. Can we put him in timeout?

Funny, I don’t feel owned. Did you know there are wind turbines in Antarctica? And they’re turning right now! Someone explain to me how frozen wind turbines are the problem. Please. I’m dying to know.
But not dying as hard as Rush.
Oops, too soon for the snowflakes?

You have me curious now on what exactly your parameters are for actually celebrating someone's death.

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Oh, that’s cold. Know what wouldn’t be cold right now? Texas, if their power grid hadn’t been designed by people with the mental acuity of a playground bully who wanted to make sure they never had to share.

Texas is purple, turning blue, I'd imagine the democrat legislators in the state are a big part of it's current condition.

Texas is purple as of 2020, maaaaaybe 2018. Keep fishing, Junior. You’ll hook a keeper one of these days.

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Texas is purple, turning blue, I'd imagine the democrat legislators in the state are a big part of it's current condition.

Texas is purple as of 2020, maaaaaybe 2018. Keep fishing, Junior. You’ll hook a keeper one of these days.

I literally just said Texas is purple you bumbling moron.

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Oh, that’s cold. Know what wouldn’t be cold right now? Texas, if their power grid hadn’t been designed by people with the mental acuity of a playground bully who wanted to make sure they never had to share.

Texas is purple, turning blue, I'd imagine the democrat legislators in the state are a big part of it's current condition.

Texas government has been solidly red for about 25 years now.  That might change soon, but it hasn't changed yet
Some of the decisions that caused the current problems were made by Democrats, yes, but Republicans have had plenty of time to fix them.
But I wouldn't blame either party.  It's petty.

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

Texas is purple as of 2020, maaaaaybe 2018. Keep fishing, Junior. You’ll hook a keeper one of these days.

I literally just said Texas is purple you bumbling moron.

And I agreed with you. It is purple. As of 2020, maybe 2018. Keep fishing! I hear the Wolfson pool’s got a school of Greenefish in it

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Do you have to try to miss points or does it come naturally for you?

Those turbines in alaska could help warm up Texas... If the grids were connected.

You're. The. Last. One. Who. Should. Post. About. Missing. Points.

You have the common sense of a toaster..

Woke toasters everywhere are offended.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

You're. The. Last. One. Who. Should. Post. About. Missing. Points.

You have the common sense of a toaster..

Woke toasters everywhere are offended.

Toaster Lives Matter

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Someone should tell Texas about the working wind turbines in Alaska. I’m sure they’ll get warm just knowing about that.  And you’re calling someone else an idiot!

Do you have to try to miss points or does it come naturally for you?

Those turbines in alaska could help warm up Texas... If the grids were connected.

And yet the turbines would still be frozen in Texas, would they not? So you can try to move the point of the conversation around, like you always do, but nothing you’re saying has anything to do with the fact that the turbines are frozen in Texas. Period.

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???