Texas Grid Operator to Be Investigated by Congressional Subcommittee
Texas costliest natural disaster will be the subject of a congressional investigation by a House Oversight subcommittee thanks to Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who is concerned about ERCOT s lack of preparation for extreme winter weather. March 7, 2021, 11am PST | Irvin Dawid Share
Winter storm 2021, as The Texas Tribune has dubbed it, which killed dozens around the state, is expected to be the costliest natural disaster in Texas history, even costlier than Hurricane Harvey, which inflicted $125 billion in damage, writes Bryan Mena, the D.C. reporting fellow for The Texas Tribune, on March 3. It is still too early to tally the total cost of the destruction.
Might we learn from the Texas electrical grid debacle?
If we Californians are smug our temerity, (we) may be punished. The interpretations of what happened to the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) electrical grid are baffling. Texas Governor Abbot asserted the causality was the renewable energy facet of that grid. A frozen 4,500 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines were the problem when 30,000 MW of fossil fuel electrical generation plants went offline?
Then, there is the gloating by some who state that the dilemma is not enough renewable energy. âReliably unreliableâ renewable wind power produced 42% of ERCOT s electricity on Feb. 8, and on Feb. 11, 8%. Not enough Texans can afford $7,500 for 5,000 watts of Tesla s Powerwall backup to residential solar.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/497521.html (Natural News) The U.S. was battered by a winter storm over the weekend, affecting different states in the country. Texas was among the areas impacted by the winter storm with deep snow and power outages. But the snowstorm is just the tip of the iceberg for some Texans, as a number of them are being faced with exorbitant amounts on their electric bills.
Forty-three-year-old Akilah Scott-Amos received a message from wholesale electricity provider Griddy informing her to switch services because “prices are about to explode.” The organic skincare and apothecary shop owner was initially confused with the message, but she nevertheless began looking for other providers. Her current provider Griddy sells wholesale power for a monthly membership fee.