Posted on 02/23/2021 5:30:32 PM PST by george76
“ “Lucy, you got some splainin to do!”
You have to be an old fogey like me to get that.”
How ‘bout this then?
TO DA MOON ALICE, TO DA MOON!
Is Hunter Biden a member of this board? He’s a notorious carpetbagger looking for an easy political payoff too.
Nebraska where I live is one of those states that has power sharing with Texas. We lost power for a few hours in some localities.
People sure bitched up a storm. Perhaps they will prepare a bit next go around.
Noted that after posting.
The PUC also needs to go for appointing them to ERCOT.
Still, in reality, there was little ERCOT could do about last week since the die was cast long ago in the clean air mandates that steered Texas to windmills.
BOUT TIME!
Good luck finding an operator that wants to sit on an old, inefficient, underutilized plant waiting for demand to peak.
ERCOT should take some of the blame, but they are under the PUC and the legislature. Why did the Governor not order the generators to ignore federal environmental limits during the cold snap? We have 5 major Gulf coast oil refineries down, with varying degrees of damage, because of this cluster ****.
Learned it in the Navy I hear.
One of the smartest guy's his dad ever met.
In a Feb. 14 letter, ERCOT says that electricity producers were close to violating their limits for pollution emissions and wastewater releases for Feb. 14-19.
ERCOT also added this, saying it “understands the importance of the environmental permits that are at issue. However, in ERCOT’s judgment, the loss of power to homes and local businesses ... presents a far greater risk to public health and safety than the temporary exceedances of those permit limits.”
In an order that Huizenga signed just before 8 p.m. on Feb. 14, the Energy Department gave ERCOT permission to exceed the pollution limits for the requested period, but with language warning ERCOT to keep generation to what was absolutely necessary to curtail the emergency.
In the order, Huizenga said, “Given the emergency nature...I have determined that additional dispatch of the Specified Resources is necessary to best meet the emergency and serve the public interest.”
The order was set to expire at 11:59 p.m. Feb. 19.
Doesn’t matter if they resigned.
Some model Texan may meet them at the gas station, the supermarket, the coiffure specialist .....
“The South Remembers”, or, “Courtesy of the Lannisters”, etc.
There is no forgiveness for corporate piracy.
Looks to me like THE FREE MARKET WORKED. Sure, after 10 years, there were a few days without power (with a relatively small loss of life), but power had otherwise been as reliable as if they had winterized for those 10 years, but we saved BILLIONS.
Seems to me that we here either support the free market or not...and it really sounds like most FReepers and other conservatives are calling for MORE REGULATIONS.
Horrible, and embarrassing.
Plenty of plants retired in the last 5 years. That's not old.
Good luck finding an operator
Thousands of jobs were lost in these forced retirements. Do you think nobody wants to work anymore?
You mean to tell me that we have five bureaucrats that don’t even live here (including some broad in Michigan) making the decisions that affect the electricity for all Texans?
Hooolllyyyy craap. Didn’t know that. So much for an independent power grid!
Perhaps we should focus on draining our local swamp before those that are far away.
Startin’ to get bothered by “Government” “sucking-up all of the oxygen in the room” every day.
Bastards.
Since you are primarily interested in saving money rather than lives, would you care to share your numbers on the cost of repairing all of the ruined buildings, both homes and commercial, that were ruined by burst pipes and other storm damage?
And another post here mentioned five refineries shut down due to power loss. That would cost quite a few bucks not only in damage but in loss of revenue to the refineries along with the downstream losses to the many who could not operate because they could not get the refineries products.
There is no way anyone can put a happy face on what happened to Texas.
By operator I mean a company willing to restart and run one of these plants.
They were retired for a reason and that reason was economics.
When natural gas prices double someone may be willing to look at an old coal plant.
How do you call the generation of power, restricted by the feds as to what they can build, restricted by how many they can build, restricted by EPA regs....a free market?
In the meantime, Texas is energy starved and people died and some people had heart attack electric bills while others suffered with NO electricity, no water in the cold dark. Spare me the economics. The power plants were already built and paid for.
Not yet. All the non-Texas-resident board members and officers need to be purged from the organization.
Something like this must have leaders that are subject to the consequences of their actions to the same level of the people they serve. In the tech industry, the term is “they should be forced to eat their own dogfood.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
Texas doesn’t power share with outside states.
Bunch of white trash ‘elites’... they feel ‘entitled to the best sinecures...
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