In o.a. Texas zijn de omstandigheden wel erg bijzonder:
"At times, parts of Texas were colder than Alaska, according to the National Weather Service."
"Homes and businesses from North Dakota to Texas are losing power in the middle of an unprecedented deep freeze that has broken daily temperature records in hundreds of places."
"More than a million barrels a day of oil and 10 billion cubic feet of gas production are shut while pipelines have declared force majeure and massive refineries have halted gasoline and diesel output."
"Power plants with a combined capacity of more than 34 gigawatts were forced offline overnight, including nuclear reactors, coal and gas generators and wind farms, Dan Woodfin, a senior director for grid manager Electric Reliability Council of Texas said. It’s not yet clear why."
"The majority of outages overnight were plats fueled by natural gas, coal and nuclear, which together make up more than two-thirds of power generation during winter."
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Bloomberg"Confidential info from a market participant in ERCOT: As of ~10 AM Eastern time, the system has ~30 GW of capacity offline, ~26 GW of thermal -- mostly natural gas which cant get fuel deliveries which are being priorities for heating loads -- and ~4 GW of wind due to icing."
30 GW ~= 40% van de vraag.
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