ERCOT and Texas Weather

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why this is a clear issue and why it hasn’t been resolved? Texas was doomed last year during the snow and now this year with the heat. I don’t understand. Am I supposed to freeze and get a heat stroke?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

We’re hanging in there:
https://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html

The problems are:

Massive population growth

No investment in dispatchable generation(intermittent sources without storage and without interconnection will eventually leave you hanging)

No interconnection

It’s an unregulated system that relies on market forces. This is what you get

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