Remove the unconstitutional federal regulations and Texas will be just fine.
Yeah. This is not a good look.
Hello Texas legislature - are you there?
February 2021 — cold caused energy demands to spike, natural gas production and power plants were knocked out.
Climate change did it, right? The state was broiling and the high heat knocked out fuel supplies and took down generators, right?
No, record COLD did that.
Of course, we all know record cold is caused by global warming..
Lol. When power failures are caused by storm damage having available power from elsewhere is pointless. It has to go through the same transmission lines.
ERCOT is ENRON all over again. Power outages in Texas were completely unknown unless the lines were down from a storm. Then the Texas GOP/Pickens/Perry and other Bushies found a way to centralize it all and pork out.
ERCOT is filled with financialization every greens from Minnesota, Germany and all over. Combine this with the DC drive to connect Texas to the national grid.
When it was Reddy Kilowatt and local power companies, Texas was great. Note it’s just a globalist hog trough for electricity.
As Milton Friedman said, put the government in charge of the Sahara desert, and in 10 years you’ll have a shortage of sand. And electricity shortage in Texas is the most shameful thing I can imagine.
Abbott’s fault. If only we had elected beto
...said no one, ever!
Before the energy reliability council of Texas, ERCOT, Texas had something else… Reliable energy.
The Texas GOPe, the piggies on Wall Street, and the socialist central planners in DC all want Texas power destroyed to grab money and control.
And let me guess, the way to save taxes is through more renewable and through connecting Texas to the national power good. Did I guess right?
the recent storms hit Texas hard
Yes, but with the exception of a single high-voltage transmission line, the outages were all local. Here in Houston, Centerpoint is addressing the problem circuit by circuit, and it's mostly fixed as of this morning.
Power was out all over Los Angeles for days after the Northridge quake, and I don't recall any recriminations about the "grid" then. Whatever flaws ERCOT has aren't the point of these legacy media hit pieces, it's all just an opportunity to throw stones at a red state, and a Republican governor.
As of 2022 Texas had 31% of its power generated by solar, wind and other renewables. Anytime you move the electrical grid above 15% renewables you are going to have problems.
If people want inconsistent, unreliable and expensive electricity that renewables provides, then let them have it. I’d rather have consistent and reliable (coal and nuclear) electricity that’s cheap.
But the Winter 2023 power outage is something that's hard to prepare for. IIRC, that's from many frozen tree limbs falling and taking down power lines.
Back to the Summer 2022 power outages in Texas...just like Texas as a state is proud to be grid independent, perhaps Texas homeowners should also try to be more self-reliant with their homes. It takes some homework to make sure solar is best for your situation, and then more homework to make sure you get just enough of each component to optimize your investment without going too far and spending too much fighting the law of diminishing returns. But every homeowner who lives in the south should at least consider it. That is, if it's important to you to insulate your family from the left's warmageddon cult and their stupid energy policies, especially with their policies always jacking up energy costs.
Unfortunately, even red states aren't immune from federal regulations impacting both cost and reliability of power. I see it as my home state of Alabama gives us some protection from federal regulation overreach, then I provide my family more protection from it.
“To accommodate the growing energy needs of the state, Texas needs to end the fantasy of ERCOT standing isolated from the rest of North America.“
Yeah…that would fix everything.
The writer is a globalist in the Atlantic council.
ERCOT on a national scale is not the answer. And he’s beating that energy in California is cheaper? Laughable. The DC and Wall Street globalist pigs want their hands on Texas grid so bad they can taste it. Hint. They don’t care about low prices or abundance.
Look at the Board of Directors for ERCOT and you’ll see what the Texas problem is.
It’s all about nationalization and giving more money to interests outside the state. Do you really want someone in New York making power decisions for Texas?
I wonder what that will do to the already abysmal illegal situation there.
Crime, break ins, violent assault, etc.
The enduring symbol of incompetence and the left loves it.
Yup. ERCOT was shown to be staffed primarily by furriners (non-Texans) who apparently are fixated on windmills, solar and pixie dust for power generation back during that debacle.
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AS IF those that lost power would not have if Texas hade been tied to a larger electric grid? BS!
The article completely ignores The Beast - a.k.a. the Texas bitcoin mining industry.
There is not a truly red state in this nation.
Not one.
This is just continuing proof.