As Texas Went Dark, the State Paid Natural-Gas Companies to Go Offline

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During the blackout, Texas's grid operator paid some natural-gas companies to shut down and stop using electricity—exactly when power plants needed the fuel the most

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.

 

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The Governor of Texas has some explaining to do!

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