a last-ditch attempt to avert mass blackouts
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas activated a program that pays large industrial power users to reduce their consumption during emergencies. But the grid operator, known as Ercot, didn’t know who was being paid to participate in this program and what type of facilities were getting shut off, it has since acknowledged.
The estimated value of the program for the five days of the blackout was about $2 billion—and participants including oil-and-gas companies earned a portion of that for turning themselves off at Ercot’s behest. Two companies petitioned Ercot for permission for idled facilities to come back sooner, the grid operator said. By the time they were allowed to restart, the crisis was nearly over.
Look at GovAbbott last tweet, this is not a priority to him for Texans. Last thing on his mind. His priority is a wall that happens to be inside Texas yards and at certain points miles away from the international border line. And a problem, that continues, but created by Trump
The Governor of Texas has some explaining to do!
While a GOP voter yells 2nd amendment, socialism & conservative values 'that one is always funny to me'... GOP state can't manage Heat properly