"Coal has exhibited reliability problems in serving the grid... From July 11 to July 12, 5,019 MW of coal-fired generation was offline across ERCOT—totaling 36.9% of the system’s accredited coal capacity of 13,596 MW."
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Coal plants have more maintenance requirements and are less efficient and less clean when they randomly get displaced by subsidized, parasitic, unreliable generation like wind and solar. Wind and solar should really have to pay thermal baseload for these upsets.
More misdirection...........
While Coal may have lost some AVAILABLE Capacity, there is no indication that it was unable to meet the generation target set for it!
Wind & Solar on the other hand lost >26,000 MW during the 24 hr day! That is not a reliable source of generation.
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was 40% of the fleet offline b/c of maintenance, or because of economics...
Coal plants are old and unreliable. Wind and solar are predictable and ERCOT is the proven expert. Wind and solar use no water, and are unaffected by freezing weather. With the addition of battery storage, wind and solar are the most reliable base load power.
The question is, why were they offline. Tripped, scheduled, plant troubles, etc.
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