Posted on 02/24/2021 4:49:53 AM PST by EyesOfTX
This whole Green thing needs a review. Supplemental energy needs if power goes out in heat and electricity supplied by stoves and electrical generation whether powered by wind,solar,or fuel particularly if one lives in a rural area always merits some consideration. But should be cost effective and not prohibited by government regulation . The way it seems to have been applied in California and even Texas I may be wrong but seems to have discouraged individual home and property owners from doing so.
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason two parties are allowed to exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
And who in HADES in Texas thought it was a fine idea for ERCOT members to reside outside the state?!
Cruz, that includes you.
“people would say it strains credibility.”
Credulity. It strains credulity.
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Governor Abbott better be listening. They all need to be gone. To the last one. This is not how Texas works.
I like the Texas Lt. Governor.
I’m willing to bet the other four out-of-staters were from corrupt blue or purple states as well.
Credulity. It strains credulity.
Thanks. It seems both are appropriate.
My own humble suggestion would be for them not to have any interest in ANY energy concerns, no matter the sources (fossil fuel, nuclear, solar, etc.).
Now, hold on, there! You're actually exercising independent thought, which is forbidden in GOP and Dumb-Dumb-O-Crat politics!
#WalkAway from the Dems and the GOP.
Cruz has no bearing on ERCOT.
That’s like asking an adult of school-aged children if they thought it was a “fine idea” that a school board in a city 300 miles away started allowing transgenders in the opposite sex bathrooms.
Heat pumps are only so good at extracting heat from the outside air, when said outside air doesn't have heat to extract. So the backup is resistance heating. As in use electricity to directly heat the home. Takes a lot of electrons. Requires a lot of wire to get power from where it's generated to where it's needed.
Discussions about how other areas of the country do it neglect to show their work: in the North, you see more gas and oil heat in those places instead of electric heat or heat pumps.
But the real reason the demand for electricity went through the roof is because Texas citizens and home-owners elected to use electric means to heat their homes, as opposed to using gas, oil, or coal.
As far back as the 70’s Texas electric companies PAID developers NOT to put gas lines into new subdivisions. They were billed as ‘New Modern All Electric Homes.
I know, because we bought one in 1979 in the Houston area.
This is definitely not how Texas works. So many out of state board members is a wake up call to most.
Thankfully, many of the power companies within ERCOT quickly saw what was happening and started making their own decisions. Ours ditched the all day outages and decided to cycle on and off every couple hours. That decision saved lives and repair bills. They also had enough sense to send water downstream to help other hydro plants.
That said, during the winter here, the full time residents use a mere fraction of electricity than is used during tourist season. Our subdivision of 90-ish houses has 6 full time houses so why cut our power? Yeah, yeah for the good of all. We were without power more than the next door county with the same inhabitant dynamic. Head scratching when we’d look out the windows to see lights on in and outside those houses just feet away.
Bill Clinton didn’t quit either. And it made no difference at all to him.
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What that graph does not show, BTW, is that there was a lot of reserve gas capacity that never came online because those plants were not fired up in advance as a precaution and the “cold”, unwinterized plants froze up even faster. Plus, gas supply itself froze up.
I think most of them are lawyers too. While I’m sure ERCOT needs representation, they should hire lawyers, not be run by lawyers. Look at what lawyerticians(lawyer politicians) do for us. Write 5,000 page bills that normal people can’t understand.
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