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getagrip_already

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5. actually, what I heard was much different...

Reply to marble falls (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 18, 2021, 12:15 PM

Feb 2021

Wind actually saw a slight net gain in overall production. Sure, some turbines went off line, but do to higher than average winds the others over produced to plan. The net output was still higher than pre outage levels.

Don't know about solar. But that isn't really badly affected by cold as much as cloud cover.

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