Texas Energy expert Doug Lewin quoted in the piece above, tweeted today:
For the 3rd time this summer, a large thermal plant broke causing #ERCOT to deploy ECRS, the one month old backup reserve, again. Ancillary services like ECRS backup all energy sources & are often deployed when large gas, coal, or nuclear plants go offline unexpectedly. #txlege pic.twitter.com/qaD6Cgn0KG
— Doug Lewin (@douglewinenergy) July 8, 2023
Had to look up ERCOT ECRS.
Here is ERCOT’s June 12 news release:
https://www.ercot.com/news/release/2023-06-12-ercot-adds-new
Meanwhile, here another example of the corrupt
Whoops. Sent before finished. Here’s another example of the corrupt nutbags we’re dealing with here:
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-considers-bill-could-severely-113000575.html
They claim it was for environmental reasons, but all 3 sponsors of the bill were Republicans. Thankfully, it didn’t make it out of committee.