ERCOT has issued a “Conservation Appeal” for the state of Texas due to the summer heat and not a lot of wind is blowing today.
They have energy-saving tips!
Note they have left off not charging your Electric Vehicle which is equal to having two air conditioning compressors running in your back yard or equal to plugging in twelve refrigerators.
Perhaps if we didn’t have Electric Vehicles then the grid wouldn’t be stressed to the limit?
If you go to the ERCOT Dashboard you can see current grid demands.
Under “Supply and Demand” note at sundown which is around 20:00 the Supply merges with Demand with just around 1000 MW between the two.
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It’s all a lie to see who is a good lemming and listens to their government gods.
I don’t think electric vehicles play much part in Texas’ inadequate supply of electricity – there just aren’t enough of them around. IMO, ERCOT owns it – it needs to be replaced by people who know what they’re doing. ERCOT obviously doesn’t, as evidenced by the disastrous total loss of electric power for days in the recent ice storm. The… Read more »
Abbott is an incapable person, and a globalist, who understands nothing about energy.
This article misses the mark by a mile. It does not how much oil you have if the EPA has constantly disallowed any new electrical generating stations. Biden has not permitted a single new facility since he has been in office. Hence Texas electricity capacity using fossil or nuke fuels has remained flat for 20 years.
And the BIG WHY is WHY a sovereign State needs to ask?
That is a great question. I do not know the answer. I think that interstate transmission of electricity allows the feds to interfere.
Tell us how this article misses the mark. This article is not about oil. The Texas problem, if 20 years old, is not Biden’s fault. Texas had a major energy problem about 4 years ago due to an ice storm. Government sure is the problem in this.
One reason new fossil fuel plants aren’t built is government subsidies. Under Obama, the federal government began handing out subsidies to so called, green energy, and the green energy solar farms and wind mills failed miserably during that ice storm and today, in addition to being unreliable, they cannot produce enough energy to meet demand. And I wonder how green… Read more »
while China is building over 1500 COAL fired plants this year alone!
FYI_ “Between Baffin Bay, south of Corpus Christi, and Sabine Lake, on the Louisiana border, about 300 wells in state waters sit abandoned by defunct owners. The largest concentration of these is the 119 in Trinity Bay, which is also home to about a dozen decaying platforms. I first wrote about Texas’s abandoned wells in 1999, and not much has… Read more »
You are attempting to assert 2 things, ineffectively:
(1) oil companies abandoned wells they can make money on
(2) oil companies have no obligation to handle closed wells
from Texas Monthly – tell them:
https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.texasmonthly.com
The wind doesn’t blow then no electricity is generated by the wind mills. The sun goes down and no solar power either! Useless.
“Man-made Global Warming is the biggest scam in human history.
All of it complete lies.
Refuse to comply with any of the lies.