The problem in Texas all stems from an over-bearing EPA and the Feds going hard on the state of Texas. This from 2014...
>>At issue are new Federal rules to cut pollution from power plants. Each state would have to come up with a plan that would cut carbon pollution, or greenhouse gases, by an average of 30 percent in less than two decades.
Texas, with all its refineries and a lot of coal-burning power plants, is the largest producer of greenhouse gases and is being asked to cut more emissions than other states.
“The plan disproportionately impacts Texas and in our opinion it oversteps the law,” said Mac MarFarland, CEO of Luminant, the biggest electricity utility in Texas.<<
This resulted in our Lignite plants being closed and wind turbines forced on us.
And for the chuckleheads who want to blame Abbott, he fought this for a very long time when he was AG...
>>For years, the State of Texas has been filing lawsuits against the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, trying to stop it from enforcing regulations aimed at reducing power plant pollution.
Texas has lost most of the cases, including a major ruling earlier this summer by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court gave the EPA the go-ahead to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. At the PUC hearing, there was testimony that Texas would again file suit over these latest rules.<<
From 2012
>>The Attorney General has made no secret of the enjoyment he gets out of filing suits against the administration and the EPA. “What I really do for fun is I go into the office,” Abbott said recently, “[and] I sue the Obama administration.”
“When Texas challenges the federal government, it’s about more than money,” Abbott writes today. “It’s about principles — fundamental principles enshrined in the Constitution and recently reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.”<<
Ping.
Why bother to make sense and find the real ROOT cause instead of just the branches?
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Well said on your part.
The failure is a cascade of failures stemming from Green Energy and Green Mandates without one whit of consideration for knock on effects.
The wild swings of wind energy and the requirements to use that power when available makes gas supplied electricity the whipping boy forced to throttle up and down constantly at the whim of the wind. Engines such as gas power plants were just not meant to run that way.
Stupid is as stupid does.