[thackney]

Give it ten years and the people of Texas will pay in blood for electricity.

Congratulations. You win the prize for the most hysteria because a private company decided to include Solar power as part of their development.

[Red6]

“The major transmission constraints in ERCOT continue to be related to the transfer of energy into the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston load centers. Almost all of the 16,000 MW of new generation coming on line in the past three years has been located outside these areas due to environmental and economic considerations. The much longer lead time in building transmission compared to building new generation or shutting down old generation is the root cause of these constraints. ERCOT manages these constraints operationally by a market-based generation redispatch when possible and direct redispatch instructions or RMR contracts when necessary.”

http://www.ercot.com/news/press_releases/2004/nr20040512.html

“On April 17, 2006, power companies throughout Texas imposed blackouts because of an electricity shortage during unseasonably hot weather. According to ERCOT, the agency which operates Texas’ electric grid, demand for electricity will exceed safe levels of supply in 2009, which could trigger blackouts like those last year.”