Nothing about “don’t charge your car for a few days”?
Mark Davis has been going off on them for 2 days now. 660AM the answer.
All those windmills not doing the job Texas?
Truly sad for a state capable of being independent from much of the country.
I got 2 emails about this. One was from the REA supplier at our farm house & shops and the other was from TXU our supplier at my house in town.
I’m sure that ERCOT told them to send the emails.
This will mean outages within the week.
The Feb Freeze was just a slight preview to watch T-boon, perry, and abbott have designed.
The governor signed legislation last week to strengthen the grid but its estimated to take up to 10 years to implement.
How about a little Sharia inspired energy laws?
For each out of blackouts caused by ERCOT not having enough generating capacity, one of the board members loses a finger.
This isn’t rocket science guys. You can build a power plant.
Republicans who fail to go after the environmental extremists who are causing this problem are more guilty than they are.
All hat, no cattle.
They were warned over 20 years ago. Nothing was done.
in North Central Texas our weather this week is normal and not a heat wave. A heat wave could be 15 degrees warmer. ERCOT needs to be replaced with people who understand that power plants are needed to generate electricity. Wind mills are solar panels are fine for isolated people off grid or high school science fair experiments.
ERCOT needs to be eliminated with everyone from top to bottom fired.
Then and only then, set up a board of folks who live in Texas, subject to the same standards as they impose upon Texans.
As a person who lived in her car for several days during the 2021 Freeze, I have absolutely no confidence in ERCOT.
Right now, as a matter of fact, I’m not too fond of my governor.
Yes, I am a Conservative Republican. The current governor has implemented/allowed several dangerous situations to fester.
When I suggested in the San Antonio Excuse for News that after the winter debacle ERCOT should have plans in place for some new nukes parked out in remote areas of W Texas, I was roasted by the energy luddites inhabiting these parts. I think my closing comment was what set them off:
I have never understood the ‘greens’ objection to nukes. Nukes don’t kill birds, they are quiet, they don’t kill huge swatches of plant and animal life as they have a small footprint, and they produce energy nearly 100% of the time regardless of the time of day, wind speed, or any other outside influence.
As usual with lefties, the name calling was their opening remarks.
We closed dozens of cheap lignite plants over the last 30 years. That’s why...
From someone who worked at ERCOT for 21 years here is the story.
ERCOT Protocols were written by the stakeholders.
Stakeholders are the Generators/Big Banks, the Transmission companies and two people repressing the consumers.
The Transmission Companies don’t care they have a fixed rate of return.
The consumers get pushed aside and cannot make a difference.
ERCOT is basically a rubber stamp to provide credibility to what ever the shareholders want.
This happens every summer in every state where it is hot.
ERCOT and the entire Texas government can stick their advice where the sun doesn’t shine. Before George W. Bush got hold of Texas’ energy supply we had energy when we needed it. As Texas’ population expanded the new system failed to expand. All electricity customers are forced to rely on the buying choices of the stupidest, most self centered customers. I don’t buy from windmills which don’t generate in calm weather or cold weather. I don’t buy from solar arrays which don’t generate at night or in cloudy weather. But idiots do. And the bozos in Austin have forced the flow of electricity to my house to rely on these idiots.
It’s a system where each generator can rely other generators to make up for his shortfall. It seems that this system has done what any dunce would have expected. It has come up short.
Abbott should sign an executive order that allows coal fired power plants to come back online….screw the EPA
Crank up the NG and coal fired you morons. They are only running 50-60% loaded. Tell the EPA to kiss your Texan ass