Texas Electric Board Members Live WHERE?

PJmedia ^ | 2-18-2021 | BRYAN PRESTON

[RipSawyer]

Some folks have no understanding of electricity. I still sometimes hear of someone claiming it takes more electricity to turn a light off and back on than it will use in an hour left on. I don’t know how such absurdities ever got started but some people still believe them.

[OKSooner]

Others have already said it, but that was clearly written by a person with zero knowledge of electricity.

Like an appliance is gonna sit there, consuming current 24/7 jus ‘caus it’s plugged in, but doing nothing.

[JCL3]

How does being a lawyer qualify you for overseeing a power grid?
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They all went to night school, got PHD’s in electrical engineering, and worked nights and weekends at utilities all over the state./SARC

They smelled the grift a Texas mile away and got right on the case.

[JCL3]

Politics, saving money by not winterizing, and this weather system shows up revealing most involved parties as failures and causing death. Many were warned in 1989 and 2011. Here’s 2011’s report:
https://www.balch.com/files/upload/NERC_8_16_2011_SW_Cold_Weather_Event_Final_Report.pdf

Here’s real-time data:
http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html

[Deplorable American1776]

A kitchenAide mixer is not used once at my house. The poster who wrote that must not cook, either they have a chef/housekeeper or they eat out. A mixer is used everyday.

[dirtymac]

and just how much are thee Board members paid. Sound like this ‘Board’ is just another pork assignment to funnel cash to friends and supporters

[mulligan]

Reads and sounds like a normal government screwup. No one knows who is responsible for this. Must be the others fault cause it sure is not mine.

[Deplorable American1776]

What is a person living in Germany doing on a Texas State board? Maine, too. What moron created this?

[ALASKA]

We’ll be their neighbor soon.

[Texas Fossil]

Source of the problem? They are a bunch of Wacko Greenie Regulators, Look at this, you simply cannot make up this crap:

http://www.ercot.com/about/governance/directors

Board of Directors

Chair

• Sally Talberg - Unaffiliated

Vice Chair

• Peter Cramton - Unaffiliated

Board Members

• Vanessa Anesetti-Parra - Independent Retail Electric Provider Segment
• Terry Bulger - Unaffiliated
• Mark Carpenter - Investor-Owned Utility Segment
• Lori Cobos - Consumer – Residential Segment – Ex Officio
• Keith Emery - Independent Power Marketer Segment
• Nick Fehrenbach - Consumer – Commercial Segment
• Kevin Gresham - Independent Generator Segment
• Sam Harper - Consumer – Industrial Segment
• Raymond Hepper - Unaffiliated
• Clifton Karnei - Cooperative Segment
• Jacqueline A. Sargent, M.S., P.E. - Municipal Segment
• DeAnn T. Walker - PUCT Chairman – Non-Voting – Ex Officio
• Vacant - Unaffiliated

Segment Alternates

• Kevin Bunch - Independent Power Marketer Segment
• Mike Kezar - Cooperative Segment
• Glen Lyons - Consumer – Industrial Segment
• Randal Miller - Independent Retail Electric Provider Segment
• Jennifer Richie - Consumer – Commercial Segment
• Steven Schleimer - Independent Generator Segment
• Wade Smith - Investor-Owned Utility Segment
• Ian Taylor - Municipal Segment

[Texas Fossil]

From same page at the bottom of page. This is about the stupid carbon credit scam. Non oil producing nations and states want the oil producing states to pay for their fuel. Pure and simple scam. Globalist Greenie BS!

Other ERCOT Sites

• ERCOT Market Information List
• FlighTrak Application
• Learning Management System
• MarkeTrak Application
• Market Information System
• Renewable Energy Credits
• Resource Integration & Ongoing Operations – Resource Services

[Chgogal]

BTTT

The difference between then and now, whoever did the energy planning did not put interruptible supplies (wind and solar) into the firm energy supply portfolios. Putting between 25-40% of wind power into the firm energy supply portfolio(s) is insane. Unfortunately, many in power seem to be insane.

[LastDayz]

“FERC and the legislature told Abbott that weatherization was necessary. He shot it down.”

Source please with respect to Abbott “shooting it down”.

[Spitzensparkin1]

tflabo wrote:
“... the incompetence of the electric power providers deserves a thorough scrutiny. Back in 1983 here in DFW we had a similar deep freeze Arctic event with no power outages issues. Unacceptable and unnecessary what has occurred here.
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Way behind and just catching up. Correct. It was -5 and water mains froze solid but the electric grid was fine. I remember it well.

SS1

[Rockingham]

Living in Florida, I am perhaps more acutely aware of the things that can be done to harden and ready electric utilities and essential services against storm damage and to prepare food and gas supplies against the loss of electricity from the grid.

Nowadays, after a hurricane, most electric service in Florida is restored with remarkable speed due to line and grid hardening and to repair crews being moved into position before a storm hits. And water and sewer systems, most grocery stores, and key gas stations now have on site emergency generators, with extra generators rolled in as needed.

Why wasn't Texas prepared for the episodic and predictable challenges of a severe snow and ice storm? The combination and coordination of public and private sector preparation was lacking. As Florida has shown, a state run by conservative Republicans has found ways to prepare for natural disasters without violating conservative principles or spending excessively. No matter how you slice it though, Texas was not ready.