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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I see commenters are assuming the months of January and February and the period between July and September are in actual fact very few days during the year. Five of 12 months is a particularly long time to go in persistent brownout conditions, compared to the rest of the North American continent.
This result is the object of the exercise.
ERCOT and the subsequent “deregulation” of the artificially created electricity market are designed to keep the price of electricity high while reducing revenues for electricity producers. Deregulation in 2002 created, by design, an artificial market of middleman “suppliers” of electricity. Outside of the rural electric co-ops (which includes Austin Energy because the model is so old) you are billed by a third party whose purpose is to skim dollars from the system while providing the impression competition is occurring in a marketplace.
These persistent shortages keep a “marketplace” rate high while not effecting the actual costs by generators, or the groups who provide billing.
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