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Feb 17, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Just talked to the best SME on the @ERCOT_ISO grid, who also happens to be a neighbor. Consider this unofficial but highly accurate.
The bottom lines are the following: didn't learn from February 2011 incident, poor weather forecasting, and inadequate weatherization (WZ). 1/
Power generators (PG) have lists of critical and non-critical assets. It started going downhill Monday early, and a lot of non-critical assets were blacked out because of a lack of generation. Normally, these non-critical assets would roll over. However, the entirety... 2/
Feb 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Here's what @GovAbbott doesn't get (out of a MM things): this isn't about @ERCOT_ISO. It's about dereg. It's about not being on the national grid. It's about profits over people. It's about shortcuts on basic things like weatherizing plants.
#Texas needs new leadership.
Again, allow me to stress that I am a former ERCOT employee. I worked on nodal and pricing. Everything we're discussing TODAY was known 15 years ago. None of this is new, but it was the goal.
