Then why has Texas closed over 3,000MW in natural gas and clean coal if NG is so cheap?crazy2medic wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 3:52 pm
How about a few more NUCLEAR REACTORS! There are only 2 in Texas....WHY? Texas should be heated by Gas powered electric plants and Nuclear Power Station!
The simple answer is the price of natural gas kept falling and it was cheaper to supply energy using natural gas than nuclear. Both of the nuclear power plants in Texas had applied for permits to double the number of generators (each has 2). But when natural gas prices fell, those plans were put on hold.
The answer is that taxpayer subsidized windmills ($18 Billion in the last 9 years) are even cheaper than NG.
And what did we Texans get for our $18 Billion?
Power outages, frozen pipes, loss of income, probably some people died as a result also (I have no data on deaths).
Let's stop subsidizing failure. If wind and solar can compete on a level playing field, then great.
If not, give me coal and gas and nuclear.