Thread by @GeneforTexas

Removing and replacing the heads of ERCOT does nothing.

1- They'll just be replaced with identical clones selected by Abbott.

2- All 3 PUC Commissioners are still Abbott appointees.

3- The same unregulated system stays in place but with new heads.

Prediction: the Texas GOP leadership will perform reform kabuki, but nothing will really change.

Lots of reports and commissions. Any meaningful change will be quietly edited out.

Someone will file a bill for the remaining reforms, and that bill will die quietly in the lege.

Here's the biggest problem:

The reforms that are actually needed? The people that make big donations to Republican campaigns hate them.

The reform that are needed go against what the GOP has been saying for years. They would have to admit they were wrong.

Producing power is big money in Texas.

Why do you think ERCOT exists? - it's a showpiece to be able to say "see, look, they're regulated."

But they don't actually have to do anything that would cut into their profits.

ERCOT is toothless by design.

Removing the powerless heads of a toothless entity is good kabuki, but doesn't actually do anything.

But I guess that's the point.