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Compare that to Texas, with a similar renewable energy makeup, whose go-it-alone grid works great unless it's too hot or too cold or too stormy in the case of Beryl.
Just know, hurricanes aren't just stormy, they have what's known as a storm surge. The lower pressure effectively sucks the water up multiple feet, causing a rise in sea level. So you now have a body of water with a whole new height moving toward and over everything.
Kind of how a tsunami isn't just a little extra water moving inland, it's a whole section of the ocean being displaced...and with the path of least resistance being over land (because air is compressible, while water is significantly more difficult to compress), you're gonna have a bad time.
So you're saying they're too stormy.
And surge-y