A big win for ERCOT

[Nostra]

This isn't about natural disasters, it's about the electric utility's responsibility to prepare for them.

How can you misunderstand that so badly?

It was a real once in 100 year storm.....meanwhile, KKKalifornia has rolling blackouts every year cuz summer.

 

[LeroyDumonde]

So when the power goes out where do the power companies' revenues come from?

 

[BackAgain]

It was a real once in 100 year storm.....meanwhile, KKKalifornia has rolling blackouts every year cuz summer.

Libs can never see it coming. Summer is so tricky, like that.

 

[struth]

This isn't about natural disasters, it's about the electric utility's responsibility to prepare for them.

How can you misunderstand that so badly?

ERCOT is a govt agency and therefore not only has no duty to act but sovereign immunity…

 

[ding]

This isn't about natural disasters, it's about the electric utility's responsibility to prepare for them.

How can you misunderstand that so badly?

And by prepare you mean to say have sufficient capacity for short term extreme weather events? That seems like something they should be held accountable for.

 

[ding]

By acting proactively to clear trees away from power lines. It's done all the time in 'socialist' British Columbia.

But it's costly work to do and it cuts into company profits.

No capitalist state such as Texas should be expected to consider that! In fact it's probably illegal to do it.

Is it?

Could the CEO be sued?

The last issue in Texas wasn't due to downed power lines because of trees, dummy. It was a supply and demand issue.

 

[1srelluc]

ERCOT is as fucked-up as a football bat....It's the easiest "follow the money" boondoggle there is.

The difference being the right-leaners and Wheels are making bank with profits and political donations.

 

[Crepitus]

Their responsibilities lie with the shareholders.

As a republican you would indeed say that.

 

[Crepitus]

STFU, unless you live in an area effected by the 2021 storm you have no dog in the fight. My utility power was out for 9 days during that storm, but I prepare for such emergencies.

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I live in southern Kansas, I was indeed affected by the storm. Fortunately My electric company is not ERCOT, so my power stayed on even though we were asked to conserve a bit.

So Suck it, kid.

 

[Crepitus]

and they should do the same,,,

to many reason for power to go out to not be ready,,

after all we are talking about the most vicious destructive force the world knows,,, NATURE,,,

It's not something everyone is capable of doing.

 

[Crepitus]

And it's about government ordering socially responsible business practices that are amenable to both the company and the customer.

Which they did not do.

 

[progressive hunter]

It's not something everyone is capable of doing.

irrelevant,,,

 

[struth]

I live in southern Kansas, I was indeed affected by the storm. Fortunately My electric company is not ERCOT, so my power stayed on even though we were asked to conserve a bit.

So Suck it, kid.

My power goes out sometimes…and i am not part of ERCOT. Great for Kansas that it’s power never goes out

 

[whitehall]

The post is an insult by hate filled ignorant lefties who have no idea how hard it is for all those emergency workers who risk their lives to try to get service to areas destroyed by natural disasters. You can't sue the federal government for importing drugs that kill your kids and you can't sue Texas electrical suppliers if a freaking tornado destroys your power grid.

 

[OKTexas]

I live in southern Kansas, I was indeed affected by the storm. Fortunately My electric company is not ERCOT, so my power stayed on even though we were asked to conserve a bit.

So Suck it, kid.

LMAO, ERCOT is not an electric company, so thanks for proving you have no clue what you're talking about.

.

 

[miketx]

Texas gas fired power plants weren't winterized. That's where the big failures came from.

YOu kids have such selective memories...

Lol, we were without power for two days in only one year. Much blabbering about nothing.

 

[miketx]

I live in southern Kansas, I was indeed affected by the storm. Fortunately My electric company is not ERCOT, so my power stayed on even though we were asked to conserve a bit.

So Suck it, kid.

Lol, do you know anything? Ercot is not a utility provider.

 

[Crepitus]

It was a real once in 100 year storm..

One happened barely 10 years before that one.

 

[Crepitus]

ERCOT is a govt agency and therefore not only has no duty to act but sovereign immunity…

 

[Crepitus]

And by prepare you mean to say have sufficient capacity for short term extreme weather events? That seems like something they should be held accountable for.

And yet the courts just gave them free reign to not prepare at all.