Enjoyed talking to public radio listeners yesterday @TPRNews. A few highlights:

(1) Anyone who blames wind energy for this is wrong.
(2) The main problem was failure in gas, coal, and nuke plants and with gas supply.
tpr.org/environment/20… #txlege #txenergy 1/4
(3) Renewables generally, though not at all times, overperformed, including right now... #windenegy is a big reason power is back.
(4) #Gas, for now, should not be considerd reliable. It's not always available when most needed. About 1/3 of the gas plants are *still* out. 2/4
(5) Get water and power flowing to people again, and then let's start looking for solutions.
(6) Blaming accomplishes little but we need our state's leaders to accept responsibility. 3/4
(7) Solutions should include
✅ better planning for extreme weather and #climatechange
✅more transmission and winterizing of power plants
✅more #energyefficiency
✅more #demandresponse

More on all of this soon! #txclimate #txenergy #txlege #TXwinterstorm 4/4

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More from @douglewinenergy

20 Feb
Tonight, at 5:30 with very little notice, the Texas Public Utility Commission met. Those interested can listen here at the link below. Pay special attention to the exchange with a concerned Texan

They did a few things I'll explain here #txlege #txenergy
texasadmin.com/tx/puct/open_m…
They gave until Monday at 3pm for Retail Electric Providers (REPs) to ask to be a "Provider of Last Resort" (POLR). This is the backstop for when other REPs go out of business, as many will, their customer get transferred to larger REPs like @reliantenergy and @txuenergy
Customers don't get to choose their POLR and Reliant and TXU are pushing hard to be the POLR. Customers can switch later. There's a problem: there will be far less REPs to switch to after likely dozens of companies fail. @apoorv_bh89 called this:
Read 17 tweets
14 Feb
A thread on the #ERCOT situation below but most importantly, if you're in TX, if you can, reduce usage today between 4-10 and again tomorrow between 5-9am.

More below on what's happening now, what's driving this kind of event and what needs to be done.

#energytwitter #txlege
Every 6 months, ERCOT creates the SARA, seasonal assessment of resource adequacy. Their forecast was 24% lower than what will likely be peak demand today. They also had an extreme weather forecast. That was somehwere around 10% lower than what we're likley to see tomorrow.
Winter peak demand forecast was 57,699. Current day forecast is ~71,000MW and tomorrow around 75,000MW. Their extreme peak load forecast was for 67,208MW, obviously undershooting by a lot.
ercot.com/news/releases/…
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