Texas has 11000 wind turbines (T Boone Pickens made a killing) and most of them froze. Their plated capacity is 25000 megawatts and at one point they were getting like 1800. As a result the compressors in the natural gas systems lost power and so the gas generators in some cases were disabled, A cascade of failure due to reliance on intermittent power sources.
Gas production took a nose dive at the well heads I drill those wells rigs are shut down. Trucks cannot get to the tank battery to haul off the produced water so wells are shut in. The wells gathering lines to the tanks also are freezing they are HDPE plastic on the surface not in trenches below the frost line. Gas hit a unheard of $100+ mmbtu unbelievable.
Seems to me that wind and solar have not been pulling their weight in regards to grid reliability. What good are those systems if power cannot be stored for later use?
Battery technology is getting better every year. What is the battery storage capacity of wind, as it exists today in TX?