Utilities are suppliers of last resort. People effed up big time. It has nothing to do with how open the electric market is.
Entities miscalculated the risk of supply sources, piss poor contracts etc.
This was avoidable if responsible people did the responsible things.
At the basest of levels, this has everything to do with an open market.
How do you ‘make’ someone do something they would not otherwise do?
You either take over and control them or regulate them.The only other option would be to incentivize generators to build more capacity. That would inevitably include wind and solar.
Do we really need more wind and solar sitting around, unused, drawing money from our pockets?
Do want to pay for wind farms that do not generate power when we need it?