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2021-02-18 03:16:32 UTC -
Rated by Participant: 0C54D8A8B7FDFAF5EB0AC185D5C83DFDD81B55458AB6EFA2979C680FEA0B45A7
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According to the ERCOT, Texas's electric reliability council, the outages are primarily due to frozen instruments at gas, coal and nuclear plants, and limited supplies of gas. Frozen wind turbines are apparently a small factor. https://twitter.com/ctraywick/status/1361715146176024578 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/frozen-wind-farms-were-just-a-small-piece-of-texas-s-power-woes
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