interesting that while we say we don't want to become california politically, texas is also becoming california in other aspects such as the neglect of vital services (i.e water or the power grid)
"The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions."
Our Betters in the Political sphere have tried to follow the fashions of the left, and it has resulted in nothing other than failure. The incompetent fools that make up the ERCOT board have been appointed by (allegedly) Republican Governors. These entities continue to try to appease people who are literally deranged, and have no clue as to How Things Work, and Why Things Work. To these lefties, power comes from that outlet on the wall; They have no concept of grid design, generating capacity, baseload, etc. Armed with this profound ignorance, they demand more solar! More wind! And the blithering idiots in Austin give it to them.
What We the Consumer get out of it are rolling blackouts due to insufficient generating capacity, brought on by a reliance on unreliable sources of generation.
The sad fact of the matter is, Texas pretty much runs it's own grid. The folks in Austin continue to bow to the whims of D.C. when it comes to increasing capacity, and this must stop. As more people move into this State, it's up to Austin and ERCOT to provide more capacity. Demand will only increase, and we must have sturdy, reliable, scalable generating capacity and increased baseload capacity. The "renewable" energy they keep saddling us with is, at best, a sick joke: Unreliable, fragile, and fabulously expensive.
Not too far from Rancho Brewingfrog, there is a massive coal-fired generating station. It provides baseline power for much of the surrounding grid, extending up to Austin and San Antonio, and down the coastline towards Corpus.. Thanks to the Dear Leader, it is scheduled to be shut down in the coming years. (See: "Coal bad!") What we folks who depend on that capacity are supposed to do for power when that closes, we have no idea. Something will have to replace that capacity, and unicorn farts are not going to do it.
One would think that an episode such as this would serve as a wake-up call to the bureaucrats responsible. Being bureaucrats, it is exceedingly unlikely that anything will be done, save for the issuance of a blizzard of reports and addenda that show ERCOT did their jobs correctly, yessiree! Governor Abbott can't get his head out his ass on the Plague, so I have little faith that he will do anything about this either.
We live in interesting times...
