said no one in this thread.the water pipe saga, all of 2 hours. Oh no, the end is nigh.
I thought you'd take a keener interest in the official corruption and overbilling angles, which I've posted on extensively, but no.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...s-17315531.phpWe need an all-of-the-above strategy informed by climate science and pragmatism. What we don’t need is more disinformation from state officials and politicians designed to benefit their campaign donors.
Throw this on top of surcharges the Texas lege passed last year.
Those surcharges will defray the cost of disaster pricing to power companies during winter storm Uri. ~$7 billion.
These surcharges are keeping the lights on (e.g., Texas is now importing power from other states) as ERCOT shambles toward its reliability mission.
Mandatory deferred maintenance strains reliability.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05...repairs-ercot/“We had a scheduled major maintenance outage beginning Friday, May 13, but it was cancelled by ERCOT on May 12,” a Calpine spokesperson said in a statement, adding that May is a “shoulder month” during which power generators historically take power plants offline to do repairs and maintenance during cooler weather.
But this month has been warmer than most Mays of the past decade, leading to higher electricity demand and causing ERCOT to scramble to keep as many plants operating as possible.
Several other power plants broke down Friday and couldn’t produce electricity after agreeing — at ERCOT’s request — to postpone planned maintenance shutdowns, said Michele Richmond, who represents power plants across the state as executive director of the Texas Compe ive Power Advocates.
ing greedy Capitalists/investors pocket $Bs of what should go to investment,
then underinvestment (aka "the tiest possible product") kills people when their tiest electric grid fails, aka "designed to fail",
and
then they pocket $9B in one Uri week and then reward $10Ms to Repug pols to keep their scam going
after charging Texas $28B more in 10 unregulated years than Texas' regulated system.
Corrupt hole Texas.
Wind power goes to waste for lack of transmission lines
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08...nd-energy/amp/The state’s High Plains region, which covers 41 counties in the Texas Panhandle and West Texas, is home to more than 11,000 wind turbines — the most in any area of the state.
The region could generate enough wind energy to power at least 9 million homes. Experts say the additional energy could help provide much-needed stability to the electric grid during high energy-demand summers like this one, and even lower the power bills of Texans in other parts of the state.
But a significant portion of the electricity produced in the High Plains stays there for a simple reason: It can’t be moved elsewhere. Despite the growing development of wind energy production in Texas, the state’s transmission network would need significant infrastructure upgrades to ship out the energy produced in the region.
“We’re at a moment when wind is at its peak production profile, but we see a lot of wind energy being curtailed or congested and not able to flow through to some of the higher-population areas,” said John Hensley, vice president for research and analytics at the American Clean Power Association. “Which is a loss for ratepayers and a loss for those energy consumers that now have to either face conserving energy or paying more for the energy they do use because they don’t have access to that lower-cost wind resource.”
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Think that tweet got deleted
Greg Abbott reportedly rewrites ERCOT press releases if he doesn't like them.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...r-17376610.phpOn Monday, the board called a meeting and went immediately into a closed executive session, before emerging about an hour later to say members would ratify what was discussed when they convened for their regular meeting on Tuesday. It was unclear whether the board took a vote during the closed session, which would be illegal under the Texas Open Meetings Act.
As a private nonprofit, however, ERCOT is not subject to the law, even though it is responsible for managing the flow of electricity to 90 percent of Texas.
“As a transparency attorney, it's outrageous than an organization with this level of impact is not covered by a law that would require them to specifically state which action they are taking in a public vote,” said Bill Aleshire, an Austin-based attorney who specializes in government transparency. “This is a horrible policy that needs to be challenged.”
ERCOT Board Chair Paul Foster said Tuesday the urgent meeting was held because Vegas’ name had been leaked to others within the industry and the media, which posed “a risk to the agreement” between ERCOT and Vegas. He said the vote to approve Vegas was unanimous.
Grg Abb
Governors shouldn't get to massage ERCOT announcements for political expedience, how extravagant.
Also, how convenient for Greg Abbott the year after the Texas grid blacked out.
Neither demand nor temperatures are particularly high today, but ERCOT is struggling to maintain energy reserves.
Head scratcher, radio silence from ERCOT
Maybe ERCOT can clarify.
It seems like deploying most of your non-spin reserves is something you would do if you were nearing an emergency situation.
PUC mulling capacity market and a gas monitor
according to Doug Lewin, the cost of the Brazos Electric Coop bankruptcy settlement -- a direct result of disaster pricing during winter storm Uri in 2021 -- will be socialized
Ritalin dude
nothing stronger than coffee needed to read the news
Regurgitating every tweet you read isn't "reading the news".
sure it is, news is news. Lewin's a great source on the regulatory beat.
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