ERCOT manages the power. Their job isn’t really to enforce individual power generators to do their job of maintenance and hardening - that’s the job for the generators themselves. ERCOT does need to alter their pricing advantage for subsidized wind so more reliable fossil fuels can stay competitive. Yes it was a problem to have a rolling blackout that lasts for an hour or so, but the bigger problem was the distribution utilities whose switches had not been tested and did not work when they went to turn the power back on.
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Yes it was a problem to have a rolling blackout that lasts for an hour or so
BS, It was not a "rolling blackout" It was a hard blackout that lasted days. I was without power for 48 hours with temps in the teens. I have friends that when without power for 3 days. Rolling black out my a$$.