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by altairprime
16 days ago
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After ERCOT humiliated itself in front of the entire state (twice iirc?) recently, I would imagine that they’ve been compelled (whether they like it or not) to prioritize “solve the damn problem any way possible” over the usual tendencies towards “but only using carbon-emissions power plants” — especially seeing how rapidly their neighbor California solved their own woes with grid batteries years ago. |
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Sadly, your imagination isn't cynical enough.
While the responsibility for the Texas grid failures, which led to multiple deaths and billions in damages, are diffuse across multiple people and organizations, if blame should be focused on one role it's the misleadingly named Railroad Commissioner who is primarily at fault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Commission_of_Texas).
Despite the deaths, shutdown economy, massive destruction of property and suffering that the grid failures caused, the position has continued to be held by Republicans and they have not fixed the underlying issue of gas power plants that have to shut down in the cold.
If Texas gets another large ice storm, the grid will fail again, people will die again, and then 51% of the state will go vote for another Republican who won't fix anything and campaigned about preventing Sharia law (this is a real thing they run on in the primaries).