ERCOT shall exhaust all reasonably and practically available resources, including available imports
any Specified Resource ... is only allowed to exceed any such limit during a period for which ERCOT has declared an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 2 or Level 3. This incremental amount of restricted capacity would be offered at a price no lower than $1,500/MWh.
Basically, they must import power at exorbitant prices beforehand and the grid must already be failing before they are allowed to spin up extra production, and that production must be priced at a point that can bankrupt normal people for running the heating overnight. The order says "Ercot can do what they need to do (but actually they can't, because environment)."
Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.
In this case, the "mistake" was 100% intentional.
MORE INFO detailed explanation of EO's and DOE document:
https://www.newswars.com/smoking-gun-joe-bidens-dept-of-energy-blocked-texas-from-increasing-power-ahead-of-enduring-storm/
I skimmed the full pdf, and that's the impression the government wants to give.
I fully expect Biden would sue Texas if they went above the EPA guidelines and didnt purchase the expensive alternative electricity.
Texas should have ignored Biden and generated the electricity anyways.
I think this "story" is just ERCOTs way of shifting blame.
Real leaders would have saved people and ignored this asinine order from the energy secretary.
Wait you’re seriously going to believe government propaganda over Infowars?
It really doesn't. This is the meat of the order:
Basically, they must import power at exorbitant prices beforehand and the grid must already be failing before they are allowed to spin up extra production, and that production must be priced at a point that can bankrupt normal people for running the heating overnight. The order says "Ercot can do what they need to do (but actually they can't, because environment)."
It DOES say that texas has to gouge the fuck out of the price of any electricity produced this way, though... which is absolute horseshit,
but whatev. fewer texans means fewer red politicians in washington, so it's win/win for democrats...
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Sorry guys, it was an accident!
Oh, don't forget to vote! (blue only you bigot)
Hahahaha! I love that guy.
"Never let a crisis go to waste!" - some flunky to a rapist.
There's a reason why Milton is on my personal Mt. Rushmore.
Like how they ran out of oil in Venezuela
Lol. Actually, it's the wrong kind of sand. This particular video on sand wars explains it yes, sand wars. 🙃 🤡🌏