Posted on 02/18/2021 1:27:16 PM PST by servo1969
Many, probably most, Texans hadn’t heard of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas until this week. Then a historic winter storm froze up the place and “electric reliability” turned into an unfunny joke for far too many. Their electricity was reliably unavailable.
Well, except in certain well-lit urban downtowns. If you live outside of those, as most Texans do, you were forced to play a grim version of Russian Roulette with your power and water supply — if you could get either. Your water pipes may have frozen and burst, rendering your frigid home uninhabitable. I have friends who are dealing with this and will be dealing with it for a long time after the storm.
Power went out for millions of Texans several days ago and is only now being restored piecemeal. Freezing temperatures won’t even leave central Texas until Friday. Much of the state north of that may stay cold for days yet.
Texans are getting to know the 50-year-old council and are not liking what they’re learning. For one thing, about a third of its members don’t even live in Texas.
A third of the board of directors that operate the state's electrical grid do not appear to live in Texas, and their performance in wake of widespread outages has led to a Dallas-area lawmaker's call for change.
Records show the two top office holders of the 15-member board of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), live out-of-state. Three other ERCOT board members also appear to live thousands of miles from Texas.
The thought of some Californian voting on our energy market doesn’t sit well.
For another, it turns out that the board members nominate each other to it.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Pitch forks and torches are really needed now. And I don’t be that surprised if the entire TX government is swept out by this. Way to go guys.
Media hysteria for the sheep. So many sheep.
A third of the ERCOT board members live out of state
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The ERCOT website biographies prior to being pulled down listed ERCOT Chair Sally Talbert as a former state utility regulator in Michigan. Records indicate she lives in Williamston, Michigan.
ERCOT Vice Chair Peter Cramton was listed as an economics professor at the University of Cologne in Germany and at the University of Maryland, the website biography said.
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Terry Bulger, who lives int in Wheaton, Ill., according to the ERCOT website.
Raymond Hepper was listed as a retired general counsel and officer for a New England company. Records indicate he now lives in Maine.
Vanessa Anesetti-Parra was listed as serving as vice president of regulatory and compliance for an energy company. A social media page lists her home as Toronto.
Are these the people who thought effing windmills were a good idea?
I’m noticing the media has begun a full-scale smear of Texas because of this weather event.
The media REALLY doesn’t like Texas lately, for some odd reason.
Car dealerships are ‘essential’ and must keep their lights on. sumbiotches!
I looked at this before it was taken down. Seems like may of the board members were lawyers. How does being a lawyer qualify you for overseeing a power grid?
Must be leftist!
And the simple minded morons are slurping up the Soros droppings. It’s amazing at how the media can play so called “conservatives” like a fiddle.
Lawyers know everything !!
Just ask one!
A Kitchenaid mixer won’t draw any current unless it’s on, so unplugging it does nothing to save energy. So that tweet is kind of stupid. I can see a DeWalt battery charger or something like that drawing a small amount of current all the time, but not a mixer! Sheesh.
That doesn’t excuse them from mismanaging the grid. A battery charger isn’t going to be responsible for rolling blackouts.
FYI, Mr. ERCOT, my (wife’s) Kitchenaid mixer was not bought during the fake pandemic. We’ve had it for 30 years. Still runs like new.
They are obviously the ones who decided that proper weatherization procedures didn’t need to be followed for natural gas, coal, and wind.
Who do you think writes up the contracts that structure a board and a utility? :-)
Question for fine Texas patriots...does the Railroad Commission oversee this agency?
Come on Man - 'elites' don't have to live anywhere near common citizens... ya gotta know that, right?
OK, thanks for the correction.
I don’t know if they could be any more clueless. The “phantom” load is a fraction a Watt, as low as a few millionths of a Watt. Meanwhile people trying to stay warm are using a 10,000 Watt auxiliary heater instead of the useless heat exchanger. No comparison, and a complete waste of time unplugging them.
Here ya go!
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