Hey look. It's good old foot in mouth going for the weekly stupid award in the cubby house.
Don't suppose you watched the video, did you ?
In particular she talked about how Texas infrastructure is not set up for really cold weather.
Coal runs in the cold ? Not if it isn't set up for it. Conveyors freeze and they can't get the coal from the bunker to the boiler. Depending on the type of cooling towers you have, the water travelling from the boiler to and through the cooling tower freezes.
" In Texas, few power facilities are weatherized for the cold. That is even after recommendations from federal regulators that power plants undergo winterization following a 2011 cold-weather event that also led to some rotating power outages. "
" At its height, around 46,000 megawatts of power generation were forced offline.
Of that amount, 28,000 megawatts are derived from thermal generation, largely natural gas as well as coal and nuclear, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, the grid operator. The remaining 18,000 megawatts come from wind and solar. "
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/gas-coal-offline-texas-cold-snap
