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Electric rates are rising faster than they ever have since Texas deregulated the electricity market in the 1990s, and that could lead to sticker shock for.
June 15, 2021
ERCOT: “All of the thermal generators (mostly gas) went offline due to a mechanical failure or the need for repairs.”
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Austin Mayor Steve Adler attacked his state’s governor on Tuesday, writing on Twitter that Governor Greg Abbott is more interested in business than the needs of the people when it comes to power outages.
The mayor wrote about Abbott “boasting about Texas being good for business” before declaring that “[ma]ybe when a corporation tells the governor that an unreliable power grid is bad for business, he’ll finally listen. He doesn’t seem to care about whether it’s bad for people.”