My understanding, coming from a friend who is a higher up at one of the power companies out here, is that the problem started when ERCOT had to ask for permission to crank up generation and didn't get a timely response from the federal government. By the time they were moving to get things running, the situation was already deteriorating.
Said friend and myself, along with a few others, are currently working to get ahold of our state rep so we can make sure that ERCOT is run by true Texans who wouldn't wait for permission to do the right thing.
It appears it was requested some time on the 12th, and granted around 9 PM EST on the 14th.
Issued in Washington, D.C. at 8:51 PM Eastern Standard Time on this 14th day of
February, 2021.
I'm not sure the request wasn't made sooner than the 12th. The 12th is the earliest date mentioned in the document though. I thought the power situation started to deteriorate on the 9th or earlier.
My understanding, coming from a friend who is a higher up at one of the power companies out here, is that the problem started when ERCOT had to ask for permission to crank up generation and didn't get a timely response from the federal government. By the time they were moving to get things running, the situation was already deteriorating.
Said friend and myself, along with a few others, are currently working to get ahold of our state rep so we can make sure that ERCOT is run by true Texans who wouldn't wait for permission to do the right thing.
Yeah. Here's what I posted in another thread:
It appears it was requested some time on the 12th, and granted around 9 PM EST on the 14th.
I'm not sure the request wasn't made sooner than the 12th. The 12th is the earliest date mentioned in the document though. I thought the power situation started to deteriorate on the 9th or earlier.
One of the recently appointed ERCOT directors who resides in Michigan may have helped to create the Flint water crisis.