[repler]

I noted that as well, but it did give context for why it’s worth looking at this data right now.

For me it was relevant to answer “oh that interesting, someone posted this ERCOT data I wonder what’s going this week”

Kind of weird my comment was downvoted so heavily - but whatever. The dashboard was posted to Reddit over a year ago during DIFFERENT issues for ERCOT so it seemed relevant to find out what’s going on this time around.

[viraptor]

Well, it could have something to do with right wing weirdos slamming wind farms as the reason for all failures of Ercot. And the article bringing up the winter issues when mostly the gas/thermal plants failed. And not mentioning the fact Ercot decided out to be a part of a bigger market that could help the situation by trading the energy with other states. And the capacity planning issues.

Instead it effectively says: look at this graph, wind doesn't solve all our issues, so we're going to call it the reason instead. It's a shallow opinion piece not a serious article.

[repler]

Okay, sorry, not an expert on this.

Why do you think someone posted the dashboard link that was already shared over a year ago? Is ERCOT having issues this month? What is the cause of the issues?

I am legitimately asking. I don't know, so that's the only recent link I was able to find.

[viraptor]

Can't speak for their intentions, but it's data, it's cool, and maybe they didn't see it before (I didn't)