Each and every member of the ERCOT board who is NOT a Texan living in TEXAS needs to be FIRED, immediately. Having people on that entity who are from Maine, Michigan, Germany and Illinois is entirely unacceptable for any number of good reasons!
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS!!
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS!!
From what I've been reading that ERCOT board has been a hot mess for years.
Maybe try calling Ted Cruz back from his Cancun vacay to do something about it?
The problem is not where the board lives. The problem is that they are academics and beurocrats. If anyone knows where I can send Abbot a copy of “The smartest guys in the room”, please advise.
After 9/11, we spent untold $$$$ to build high brick walls around substations so passerbys couldn’t see terrorists messing with them. Too bad they didn’t use those billions on upgrading equipment.
It seems lack of imagination and poor planning were the cause of this disaster. Why wasn’t the possibility of severe cold considered in planning? Why wouldn’t it make sense to have people on a Board with extreme weather experience. Lower wind usage in winter is already expected. How do northern countries keep their wind generators from freezing up? Was Texas too cheap to consider such technology? The same questions for keeping the Natural Gas system working in cold weather. Why waste the tremendous wind resources of west Texas or the strong solar contribution because they didn’t have it when you were a kid? What are our grandchildren going to use for oil and gas if we use it all up in the next decades. A gradual, WELL PLANNED shift to more renewables is totally logical. The key is WELL PLANNED. Environmentalists need to be more aware of the issues for carbon fuel businesses. The carbon industry needs to start planning shifts of more business activity to environmentally smart applications. [Note: I own some BP stock and years ago was happy to see them talking about solar energies.] The smart people of Texas need to wake up and smell the future. There is plenty of business to be done and money to be made during this period of transition. Do we want to be dependent on Middle East oil production for our own national future forever? How many sons and daughters has Texas lost to this insanity?
I dug around on their web page a little and couldn’t even find a listing of their board members. That’s absurd for a quasi-public non-profit organization.
“Each and every member of the ERCOT board who is NOT a Texan living in TEXAS needs to be FIRED, immediately. “
More important is they know power generation and the utility business .
I wonder how many are engineers ?
Are you kidding? Do you guys ever take responsibility for ANYTHING or do you really believe your own silly talking.
I’ve read More articles on Texas’ courts and congress folk and cities making INSANE decisions.
You can say the cities aren’t part of TX if somehow that lie makes you feel better, but it is a lie.
Oh and you guys are just a few percentage points away from swing state territory.
You watch a coup happen twice and let your statues be torn down and did you rise up with that TOUGH TEXAN ATTITUDE?
No, you laid down and did nothing like republicans in every other state.
Except for that nonsensical bill about seceding which is kabuke theater at its best.
Wake up to reality