Abbot didn’t have to tell them to fuck themselves. The emergency waiver was granted. Read the attached letter to the tweet, or see the full letter here.
To minimize adverse environmental impacts, this Order limits operation of dispatched units to the times and within the parameters determined by ERCOT for reliability purposes.
All entities must comply with environmental requirements to the maximum extent necessary to operate consistent with the emergency conditions. This Order does not provide relief from an entity’s obligations to purchase allowances for emissions that occur during the emergency condition or to use other geographic or temporal flexibilities available to generators.
People are dying from lack of energy in temperatures 20 degrees colder than normal and while they're granting portions of the waiver, nearly half of it is bogging the waiver down with bullshit "environmental requirements", including the idea that they have to "purchase allowances for emissions that occur during the emergency condition". I was ready to believe there was a nuanced position here, but this letter bullshit and the tweet isn't far off.
Emissions allowances are industry standard... for energy, O&G, any form of production. From this letter, if allowances were available and not bought, then it’s on ERCOT... which all of this shit is anyway. They’re complete shit lords for allowing kWh’s for being price gouged the way they were during the outage anyway. Absolute trash. The current admin is still full on MASA though... no escaping that.
Abbot didn’t have to tell them to fuck themselves. The emergency waiver was granted. Read the attached letter to the tweet, or see the full letter here.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2021/02/f82/DOE%20202%28c%29%20Emergency%20Order%20-%20ERCOT%2002.14.2021.pdf
People are dying from lack of energy in temperatures 20 degrees colder than normal and while they're granting portions of the waiver, nearly half of it is bogging the waiver down with bullshit "environmental requirements", including the idea that they have to "purchase allowances for emissions that occur during the emergency condition". I was ready to believe there was a nuanced position here, but this letter bullshit and the tweet isn't far off.
I read this document and still do not understand the problem.
Emissions allowances are industry standard... for energy, O&G, any form of production. From this letter, if allowances were available and not bought, then it’s on ERCOT... which all of this shit is anyway. They’re complete shit lords for allowing kWh’s for being price gouged the way they were during the outage anyway. Absolute trash. The current admin is still full on MASA though... no escaping that.