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Texas halved its use of coal in the last decade. But the power crisis that seized the state last week could alter plans for future closures.

The Texas energy system is having a wintry moment of reckoning.  The past 48 hours of record-cold temperatures have forced much of the state’s thermal generation fleet offline, requiring grid operator ERCOT to institute widespread blackouts to prevent the risk of a further grid collapse.  About 4.3 million utility customers, approximately one-third of the state’s electric customers, were without power in Texas as of Tuesday morning, up from about 2.5 million on Monday morning, according to data from PowerOutage.US. What started as rotating blackouts meant to last no more than an h...

Https://youtu.be/ZbQkPOQKblQ Fossil fuel mouthpieces everywhere desperate to bend events toward the dirty energy narrative, but as facts roll out, reasonable people on all sides will more and more be pushed to some common conclusions.Grid connectivity is inadequate, extreme events are going to continue to come, and renewable energy plus storage can help. Politico: The extreme…

Do not point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they are not the main reason broad swathes of the state have been plunged into darkness. While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, wind only comprises 25% of the state's energy mix this time of year. The majority of outages overnight were plants fuelled by natural gas, coal, and nuclear, which together make up more than two-thirds of power generation during winter.

(Bloomberg) — Skyrocketing electricity prices in Texas are creating a financial windfall for power generators able to supply energy during the unprecedented…