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Once again, if you read the article you sent it clearly states ERCOT is tied to the sync grid. NPPD directly sold power to ERCOT during 2021 and OPPD agreed to purchase less power so it could be sent south while keeping congestion off the grid. This isn’t new. ERCOT has been around since the 70s. You’re talking to someone works in transmission and distribution. What you are claiming is 100% not correct.
Once again, if you read the article you sent it clearly states ERCOT is tied to the sync grid. NPPD directly sold power to ERCOT during 2021 and OPPD agreed to purchase less power so it could be sent south while keeping congestion off the grid. This isn’t new. ERCOT has been around since the 70s. You’re talking to someone works in transmission and distribution. What you are claiming is 100% not correct.
So explain to me how this power grid is so great at handling a cold snap that killed 700+ people back in 2021? Oh, it’s designed that way to avoid federal regulations and can only draw a very limited about of power from out of state sources.
To be fair it was a hell of a cold snap that would have unfortunately cost lives regardless but if TX wasn’t so goddamn stubborn less people would have died.
All for ideological purposes and money - $16B in unnecessary charges thanks to that spike in wholesale prices.