Remember the infamous winter outages, when more than 110 Texans died thanks to Governor Abbott and ERCOT’s incompetence? If current trends hold, we may be headed for another blackout, this time in the midst of summer heat. It appears that if ERCOT fails again, as I expect, there will be around the same amount of people dead as before, with blood once again being on ERCOT and Abbott’s hands. During the Screw-Job Session, our elected officials tried to convince us that ERCOT’s issues were fixed via SB 2, and SB 3, but in reality they never really fixed the problem. SB 2 mandated that ERCOT board members have to be Texans (something that should’ve been common sense), and allows the board more independence. SB 3, among other things, creates a blackout alert system, and “requires” the winterization of natural gas and power plants;
ERCOT Fail 2.0: Summer Boogaloo?
ERCOT Fail 2.0: Summer Boogaloo?
ERCOT Fail 2.0: Summer Boogaloo?
Remember the infamous winter outages, when more than 110 Texans died thanks to Governor Abbott and ERCOT’s incompetence? If current trends hold, we may be headed for another blackout, this time in the midst of summer heat. It appears that if ERCOT fails again, as I expect, there will be around the same amount of people dead as before, with blood once again being on ERCOT and Abbott’s hands. During the Screw-Job Session, our elected officials tried to convince us that ERCOT’s issues were fixed via SB 2, and SB 3, but in reality they never really fixed the problem. SB 2 mandated that ERCOT board members have to be Texans (something that should’ve been common sense), and allows the board more independence. SB 3, among other things, creates a blackout alert system, and “requires” the winterization of natural gas and power plants;