Or unreliability, as the case may be.
>>He joins Shep Smith to discuss.<<
Not enough pickle sniffers involved in power generation.
Abbot better fix this by next year’s governors race.
We finally have water, but power is still up and down like a yo-yo. I’m so upset with our city council... people wouldn’t believe the S#$! Show that’s gone on for the past 24hrs. The story behind the curtain, even at local levels, has everyone pissed! Citizens are out for blood over this crap, it’s a long story, filled with deception, ill-preparedness and slaps to the face, it’s truly sickening!
Personally, I’m loving every minute of this. The stupid tree hugger / environmentalist wacko’s are getting what they deserve. I’d love to see this last for a month or more. Anyone with common sense knows that you can’t rely solely - or 92% - on wind and solar for your electrical generation..... coal is the answer but they are driving it out of existence. Natural Gas is good but there have been units shut down that are gas due to there not being enough natural gas, as households get gas before industry...… which is ironic since if you don’t have electric to run the fans on the furnace, it’s of no use...…
Excellent move by our gov. This fiasco had a leftist shenanigans odor from the second it started. I think AG ken Paxton needs to investigate Ercot immediately. This smells of a leftists manufactured crisis. People have died and property damage is going to go into the billions. This is criminal. It also has a stench of political retribution. No matter what is determined this must be the end of Ercot as well as beginning the total phase out of wind and solar power. This is unacceptable for Texas.
Fukishima, Texas
Translation, we in government tell you what to do but screw you if you do it.
I’d start by finding out why wind turbines in Texas froze up when those in Illinois, Iowa, and elsewhere much colder do not. Poor maintenance? Design shortcuts? Or what?
Without the loss of much wind generation this crisis would not have happened.
And don’t just replay the standard FR anti-wind BS. They do not freeze up anyplace else.
This was bound to happen when Texas eliminated the original electric plan and instituted the ‘Texas Plan’ which put electric company profits over reliability and sufficient additional supplies. Only way to fix this is rip out the Texas Plan by the roots.
Probes? more probes? Government is inept.
Time for these idiots to be probed. This all started with T. Boo e Pickens and Rick Perry. You’re a freaken energy state sitting on 2 of the biggest natural gas reserves in the world and you have wind farms? Nuke Austin from space and return to sanity! Its these progressive idiots responsible for this mess....soon to be forgotten when the temp goes up over the weekend.
What’s with Gov. Abbott announcing the STNP nuclear power plant had to be restored? Why, with the warnings last week, wasn’t the nuke plant going full bore for the past 4 days!??
Why was gas sold to other states iinstead of being kept for Texas, until Abbott issed an executive order to sell the gas only to Texas utilities?
What were the screwups that caused coal plants to be unavailable for the last several days?
Expect massive fingerpointing and CYA actions by politicians, ERCOT, utilities, and local electricity agencies!!
The enemydia is now putting out a lot of stories about the cause of the Texas outages, now including an out-of-state electric supplier who stopped delivery to take care of their own state’s energy needs.
Spread the blame out so thin that no one can be held accountable. Yeah! That’s the ticket.
And after telling everyone to let their faucets drip, Texas officials now say there are water shortages in some areas.
During the double digit temperatures, the most ludicrous line I heard was by an Austin Fox7 newscaster (though I suspect all the stations were using it): “Keep warm!”
Those with electrical power watching the show in their heated homes hardly needed such advice. Those families without power at homes located in declared “non-essential” grid areas, and who were desparately trying to stay warm, probably weren’t able to hear his advice on their electrical-powered TV.
Ercot had several failures.
1. Focusing on cheaper conservation instead of building infrastructure to support 200K people moving here per year.
2. What little they did build was windmills that are expensive and don’t produce power during summer and winter peaks ... driving up utility costs without meeting demand
3. Encouraging solar and engaging in cost-shifting instead of winterizing infrastructure
4. Not pushing for expansion of Comanche Peak nuclear power plant to meet the growing baseload demand without relying on gas