Images: Texans Froze To Death Because Biden Admin Ordered ERCOT To Throttle Energy Output By Forcing It To Comply With Environmental Green Energy Standards - USA SUPREME
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**EVERYONE -- 17nights is the only one on here with the correct analysis. **
I detest the BidenHarris admin like everyone else here, but this is not their doing. The EO absolutely gave ERCOT all authority to do what they needed to do. The problem was due to poor planning on ERCOT's part, a lack of infrastructure weatherproofing, the lack of available NatGas regardless of price, an over-reliance on unreliable renewables, and a historically bad weather event.
Hanlon's razor is in full display here, along with some bad luck. Not some cockamamie government conspiracy.
I sincerely thank you for your comment. I hesitated to post, but my desire to clarify was more important. As a country, we have a bad habit of not holding people accountable if they have our preferred letter next to their name.
Additionally, the argument against winterizing is that they provide "cheap" power. But the people who's lights DID stay on have outrageous bills, one vet has 16k bill. So tell me, was it really worth it?
No problem on the comment. I am an exec in an energy services company, and I am seeing WAY too much disinformation and/or uneducated opinions out there right now on this subject. There's literally people that think Biden controls the weather and this is revenge for Texas seceding. I mean, come on!
In support of your point on "cheap", one of our other execs said the other day that ERCOT's strategy was to perceive risk on a normal distribution curve, where no system or process can survive truly outlier events regardless of how much money you put into them. Obviously when something like this happens it is bad optics and a political problem, but the perfect solution is ALSO a political problem. It boils down to you generally getting the reliability that you pay for, and that no one really wants to pay what it would take to survive unprecedented events like this. I am not quite as forgiving as my colleague is, as infrastructure weatherproofing is done extensively elsewhere in the country and it is not all that expensive compared to the cost of not doing it.
Also to your point on the high bills, I would be shocked if these weren't variable rate programs where they bought in at cheap rates and either didn't read the fine print or rolled the dice thinking they would always get cheap rates. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.