“Texas has a stand-alone power grid....in the electrical sense still the independent Texas Republic.”
Yes, I know and we have a hook up to Mexico to sell them our “extra” electricity.
I expect this drill will assume Texas is out, too. I’m sure it pisses off Hussein/Homeland Security that we are separate - they hate Texas for being here, period.
Yes, I know and we have a hook up to Mexico to sell them our “extra” electricity.Re-read the ERCOT 'rules and regs'; any power crossing our borders MUST be repaid in kind ... OTHERWISE the feds get involved. That is the reason Texas is and has stayed out from under FERC control ...
There are a couple of other DC "tie-lines" besides the one with Mexico. They all work the same way (repayment in kind IOW by electricity/power flow flowing back the OTHER way)