BS, had operators winterized their plant equipment, no outages would have been necessary.
Plant management should have been fired for gross incompetence.
Well some progress has been made in Texas ... those carpetbagging ‘woke’ ERCOT board members have all been sent packing and the hardening of coal and natural gas generating plants is underway. Their biggest problem was getting coal / natural gas into the plants so generation could happen. They didn’t keep enough fuel close by.
The windmills may be getting heaters as an upgrade. That is good but the number of windmills is still way to high. Some Texas power companies rely on windmills to supply over 30% of the power they sell. That is way too much exposure. Texas should be starting construction on 2-4 nukes way out in the badlands of West Texas where an accident (unlikely) would affect only the wildlife.
“BS, had operators winterized their plant equipment, no outages would have been necessary. Plant management should have been fired for gross incompetence.”
Agree, and other factors too, such as the feds not allowing the natural gas pumping stations to use the gas they pumped for power...instead having to rely on a collapsed grid. Plus, I suspect, a lot of back-slapping “Trust Us” kind of crap that happens virtually everywhere.
Anyway, Abbott handled it well...Cruz, not so good.
More BS.
Politicized bureaucrats with bribes in hand mandated conversion on a timeline developed by no one with any idea how to do this. So, the operators (incented by $$$) installed what they could get their hands on.
This was not an operators’ problem, it was corrupt politicos imposing their virtue signaling upon the citizens. That the operators went along with it just ID’s the pack of criminally corrupt “businessmen” in charge — who ought to be up against the wall after the politicos.
That Tx didn’t do that just shows how far they have fallen from their Alamo roots.