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by dredmorbius 1934 days ago
A predictable price sufficient to meet netcosts of provisioning is not the same as "price spikes 10,000% under historically precedented but outside planning contingencies weather event.

Texas saw similar temps in late January, 2011, highs around 20°F, lows near zero. That was ten years ago. There weren't widespread outages.

ERCOT's planning excluded that recent history.