Before the energy reliability council of Texas, ERCOT, Texas had something else… Reliable energy.
The Texas GOPe, the piggies on Wall Street, and the socialist central planners in DC all want Texas power destroyed to grab money and control.
And let me guess, the way to save taxes is through more renewable and through connecting Texas to the national power good. Did I guess right?
It’s not possible to connect Texas directly to the national grid. While both grids are 60hz in name they are not 60hz in reality they are 60-59.5hz and not in the same phase relationship. The only way to synchronise them is to bring one grid down to a black start condition then start the grid on external phase signal bringing each generator online to the new phase relationship. To black start ERCOT would be a weeks long process. This nearly happened in feb 2021 when the gas grid went down with wellheads freezing plus electric gasline pumps not being on critical grid lines. Then gas plant after plant went off line. The grid dropped to 59.2hz and nearly went black. It would have taken weeks if not months to black start the grid. The only way to connect ERCPT to the Eastern or Western interconnects is via HVDC to HVDC back to back inverters.