Posted on 02/22/2021 7:28:21 AM PST by Red Badger
A week before, Texas begged for help and asked for DOE to lift federal regulations barring state's energy output.
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An Emergency Order from the Biden administration’s Department of Energy shows Texas energy grid operator ERCOT was instructed to stay within green energy standards by purchasing energy from outside the state at a higher cost, throttling power output throughout the state ahead of a catastrophic polar vortex.
Going into effect Sunday, Feb. 14, Emergency Order 202-21-1 shows the Energy Dept. was aware of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide disaster declaration and that ERCOT was readying gas utilities in preparation for a demand surge.
The order shows Acting Energy Secretary David Huizenga did not waive environmental restrictions to allow for maximum energy output, instead ordering ERCOT to utilize all resources in order to stay within acceptable emissions standards – including purchasing energy from outside the state.
“ERCOT anticipates that this Order may result in exceedance of emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury, and carbon monoxide emissions, as well as wastewater release limits,” the order states. “To minimize adverse environmental impacts, this Order limits operation of dispatched units to the times and within the parameters determined by ERCOT for reliability purposes.”
Moreover, the order instructed an “incremental amount of restricted capacity” to be sold to ERCOT at “a price no lower than $1,500/MWh,” an increase of over 6,000 percent over February 2020 prices of $18.20.
On Wednesday, the Dallas Business Journal reported, “Electricity on the Texas grid has averaged about $1,137.33 per megawatt hour so far in February, up from $18.20 per megawatt hour in February 2020, according to data from the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas. That’s a jump of more than 6,000 percent.”
Days later, the Public Utility Commission of Texas set prices at $9,000/MWh.
The EO shows the Biden administration basically ordered ERCOT to throttle its energy output by forcing it to comply with environmental green energy standards, while knowing full well Texans could freeze to death in their homes with zero electricity as temperatures plunged into the single digits.
Read the order:
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We’re always wet here in MO all winter. My buddy’s got an open wood fired grill that he cooks on all summer. We’re not big on rules here. I can go to walmart right now and hardly any customers will have a mask on. No one paid attention to the arrows on the floor so they finally got rid of them.
https://www.energy.gov/oe/downloads/federal-power-act-section-202c-ercot-february-2021
Read the request from ERCOT and the DOE waiver (order). It looks to me ERCOT got what they asked for, including the $1500 limit.
These ambitious inepts will handle everything like CHERNOBYL.
Dimwitted Americans should start to slowly learn what the climate change hoax does in real terms to real people.
Sadly the Left has 99% control over all information via the media and social media and Google searches. So they will see “delays by Trump caused earth to be in danger of climate crisis collapse.”
The interstate controlling board and fed control are two separate issues.
The Feds have control through the Clean Air act..
and the radical push to reduce CO2 emissions.
What was done voluntarily ... is now mandatory.
Elections have consequences, and Biden’s DOE murdered people by refusing to allow sufficient power generation.
The DBM has buried this story. Natch.
Having to REQUEST permission to run your necessary equipment !
Really ?!?
bkmk
Ha. The ignoring of floor arrows will mark you fine Missouri people as Deplorable outlaws for the new Biden Attorney General if nothing else will.
I reached a peak of compliance at Kroger about two months ago but now keep forgetting and have gone into floor arrow rebellion. After dirty looks (me thinking: mask is on, not buying a Made in USA product....uh, oh wrong way floor arrows. I've had it.)
They did. DOE granted them every waiver they requested.
Infowars is putting on this dishonest spin assuming its readers can't understand the language of DOE's letter and playing to their biases.
I agree something about this stink, seems it would be all over the news.
Everybody knows saving the planet and preventing carbon emissions is more important than saving human lives.
It's all about science.
Nope. They'll simply ban them.
But don't worry. I hear those Soviet style apartment blocks are plenty cozy when it gets cold. The Party bureaucrats make sure they stay at just the right temperature and the rules are followed by all.
Bttt.
5.56mm
How many did this kill?
22 so far........................
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