Also note members of ERCOT do NOT have to reside in Texas and suffer the slings and arrows of their folly decisions. THAT should be a requirement to be on the board. Contact the governor/lawmakers over that oversight.
One is reminded of “Baghdad Bob” and his responses to inquiries about Saddam Hussein’s actions.
These are clearly alternative facts. Reality bites much too hard. And it is as relentless as all Hell.
A power system that does not deliver power is not “working as planned.” Jackass.
Texas will revert to natural gas, this is a godsend.
The Gas burning power plants RELY on piped in fuel as opposed to keeping a supply on site...the monies spent on solar and wind(which will never break even let alone show a profit)could have easily supplied storage tanks and planned new construction of future plants....they took all the government grants for solar and wind and this is the end result. Simple greed .
Funny, it was never necessary before the Pickens, Perry, and Abbott windmill era. All those ice storms in the 70s and 80s never lost power unless lines were down. Or unless a tornado tore everything up.
The Texas Republican Party (Bush) owns this.
No excuses.
Rich neighborhoods have power. Lower middle class, not so much. (Compare current outages in area code 75205 (Park Cities -593 out) with 75204 (Part of Oak Lawn to Old East Dallas - 3166) and 75206 (East of 75205, north of 75204 - 2325)
It’s easy to be an arm-chair quarterback. Consider this investment. Science invents a hypothetical meteor-proof roof that will repel space rocks up to 2 meters in diameter, but it is going to cost you half a million dollars to buy and install. Are you going to do it, considering the very small likelihood of a meteorite hitting your house?
My only beef is with the dishonesty that’s been displayed. I would have been fine with an upfront admission that the power grid just wasn’t prepared for a,sub-zero event along with widespread freezing precipitation for so long, and that we’d likely experience prolonged power outages. Everything is a limited resource, if you are even marginally familiar with economics. Let’s not be like Democrats who think that health care just grows on the trees of an endless orchard, free for the picking.
Hogan said: “Higher electricity demand leads to higher prices, forcing consumers to cut back on energy use while encouraging power plants to increase their output of electricity.”
Can somebody ‘splain this to me?
Oh it’s working alright.
Rick Perry suggests Texans prefer blackouts to federal energy regulation
“Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business,” Perry said. “Try not to let whatever the crisis of the day is take your eye off of having a resilient grid that keeps America safe personally, economically, and strategically.”
They have cheap electricity in TX and it’s not subsidized.
25% of their generation capacity is wind driven. That’s just a stupid idea period. And of course a guy from Harvard designed this fiasco.
Of course it failed.
I don’t think this **** should be happening in the first place but since it is... they should have to post/notify the public of zip codes and the planned rotations.
The start of every year they need to send out the schedule that will be used if needed.
Zip 66666 will have 3 on 5 off- it needs to be charted, this way people can shut off their heating/cooling, turn off their electronics etcetera.
They are tearing up peoples stuff as it is and are responsible for so much damage, with freezing pipes and homes severely water damaged.
They are acting like some type of masters and we are at their whims, no sir, this **** ain’t gonna fly.
Then the plan was a disaster. Today proves that.
