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5 ERCOT board members who live outside of Texas resign in aftermath of power outage, winter storm
WFAA ^ | FEB. 23, 2021

Posted on 02/23/2021 5:30:32 PM PST by george76

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas announced in a Tuesday notice to the Public Utility Commission of Texas that four of its board members will resign effective Wednesday, Feb. 24..

A fifth board member separately submitted her resignation.

Gov. Greg Abbott sent out a statement saying he welcomed the resignations.

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All five members who are resigning live out of state,

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Last week, amid growing frustrations and public outcry during the winter storms in Texas, ERCOT removed the names of its board members from its website. It has since restored those names. Prior to being pulled down, the biographies listed Talbert as a former state utility regulator in Michigan. Records indicate she lives in Williamston, Michigan.

Crampton was listed as an economics professor at the University of Cologne in Germany and at the University of Maryland,

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: electric; electricreliability; energy; ercot; reliability; texas
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1 posted on 02/23/2021 5:30:32 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

Mission accomplished.


2 posted on 02/23/2021 5:31:06 PM PST by proust (All posts made under this ip are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: george76

Wonder if there’s a severance package.

L


3 posted on 02/23/2021 5:31:27 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: george76

Five members of the ERCOT board have resigned, lawsuits have been filed. ERCOT, power providers, Texas political leaders, the PUC and utility companies will have plenty of questions to answer.


4 posted on 02/23/2021 5:33:45 PM PST by Meatspace
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Now is the time to roll back the ultra strict EPA standards and start up idled power plants. It’s time for common sense to take over. Americans died over Climate Change nonsense.


5 posted on 02/23/2021 5:35:02 PM PST by BipolarBob (Biden/Harris - the regime our Founding fathers warned us about.)
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To: george76

And well they should.

However, I read that a couple of days earlier, they had actually requested the Federal Government to let them get the traditional (gas or oil) power generating facilities online at 100% of capacity, since for various greenie motives they had been restricted to something like 80% or perhaps less. The Feds wouldn’t give them a waiver from some insane regulation to do this.

Anybody else see anything about this?


6 posted on 02/23/2021 5:36:23 PM PST by livius
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To: george76

With the high salary they get, you’d think they be Texas residents at least on paper (no state income tax).


7 posted on 02/23/2021 5:37:04 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: proust

Obama: Transforming America


8 posted on 02/23/2021 5:38:11 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Lurker

Bet on it.


9 posted on 02/23/2021 5:38:59 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tagline Under Review)
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To: livius

There were posts on here from a former employee who said they short changed their systems vis a vis cold weather operation to save money. And things like pneumatic control systems and valves were freezing up.

Maybe they believed that “globull warming” was gonna make them ok with this, and for most of the last decade they pulled it off.


10 posted on 02/23/2021 5:40:28 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: george76

That’s a start.


11 posted on 02/23/2021 5:40:48 PM PST by Allegra
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To: livius

Yes

I saw that

O’Biden nixed their request


12 posted on 02/23/2021 5:41:49 PM PST by combat_boots (Hi God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! )
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To: george76

Board members from a distance. Nice gig.


13 posted on 02/23/2021 5:41:52 PM PST by lurk ( )
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To: livius

I’ve heard the same, but can’t remember where.

The governor should have told the EPA “Piss off. We’ll see you in court”.


14 posted on 02/23/2021 5:42:29 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: george76

“All five members who are resigning live out of state.”

Congressmen and congresswomen who don’t reside in their respective districts should do the same.


16 posted on 02/23/2021 5:44:53 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: george76

It didn’t seem much of a stretch to predict that heads would roll, and here we are. The “once in five hundred years” projection is now “once in one year” and yes, it does look as if the old saw that repair is more expensive than prevention is in full force.


17 posted on 02/23/2021 5:46:13 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

Maxine Waters does not live in her congressional district..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3892756/posts


18 posted on 02/23/2021 5:47:20 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

A start, but not a solution.


19 posted on 02/23/2021 5:47:31 PM PST by PAR35
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To: george76

Why would you allow 5 people living outside of your state to have this level of power and influence?

Prediction....The SHTF in 3-2-1


20 posted on 02/23/2021 5:47:33 PM PST by Herodes
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