ERCOT Says *Only* 20% Chance Grid Fails This Winter
Living on the edge.
I’m not an economist, but I imagine it’s going to create a lot of jobs having to constantly fix everything sure to break due to the electric grid failing all the time.
AUSTIN – ERCOT has canceled a program to boost power reserves for what could be a precarious winter for Texas’ electric grid after no energy companies volunteered to fire up their shuttered plants.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas had sought enough additional electricity generation to power about 600,000 homes to shore up reserves after it forecast a near 20% chance of reaching emergency conditions this winter.
600,000 just so happens to be how many illegals will be moving here this winter. Still, 1 in 5 chance of grid failure ain’t bad. It still beats the alternative of dying from global warming! That’s why we built windmills.
Scientists have said—according to the science— that without windmills this👇🏻 would have been Houston in 2021.
Vegas said ERCOT received no bids from power generation companies to activate sidelined power plants. It had intended to pay the owners of mothballed and decommissioned power plants to reactivate for the winter starting Dec. 1.
Targeted plants included decommissioned coal and natural gas power facilities owned by municipal utilities across Texas, such as city-owned utilities in San Antonio and Austin.
They’re closing the last few coal plants in Texas, and nobody is interested in the cat and mouse game of turning them back on, only to have to compete with Abbott’s subsidized windmills.
You see, in an advanced windmill economy such as Texas, you get really wacky market forces for energy as mysterious as the wind itself.
ERCOT also sought large-scale electricity users, including utilities and industrial customers, willing to shed electricity usage when power reserves are stretched to emergency levels. They would be paid to turn the lights off.
Our energy market is run like the Soviet economy, only the Soviets weren’t stupid enough to shut down all of their production capacity on purpose to try and change the weather.
Back in 2018, when they really started to close down our energy generation capacity, they said it wasn’t a big deal.
They are closing down a coal power plant here in Texas every few months. I couldn’t find out how many have closed in total, but I would guess it’s about 100.
In case you don’t know, the entire state is now filled with hideous windmills that are often seen sitting completely still. This change has been recent and dramatic as the landscape in many areas of Texas has been ruined by miles of these monstrosities.
The share of coal dropped 68%, while the wind, (which blows whenever it feels like) is up 325%!
This is entirely an Abbott thing, as a matter of fact. He loves these windmills as they started when he finagled his way into office.
Now, they can’t even bribe companies to bring the coal back online!
“But Tommy, at least we are getting clean electricity, and government subsidies mean consumers will pay less up front.”
Yeah, electricity rates are down…
Just like the border is secure!
Just like everything else these days—gayer and more expensive.
One day we will liberate our lands of these dirty windmills.
“But Tommy, .....government subsidies mean consumers will pay less up front.” and guess where those "govt subsidies" come from? you & me! anything govt subsidized will never be cheaper.
windmills can't work if the wind is over 20 mph - that's why you don't see them working much. politicians are money-hungry & do what they get the most kickback from -so we have expensive, inefficient, undependable windmills that sit idle when we need the most energy. Too bad coal & natural gas don't have the same marketing group out buying the money-grubbing politicians.