Looks like more hot weather for Texas. My concern continues to be the electrical power grid. If the winds die down in the panhandle and west Texas, as expected, there will be a big power crunch. I also worry that blame will be placed on “renewables”. The governor and legacy oil and gas energy producers tried to blame renewables during the Big Freeze two years ago. This was completely false, but this time it will be less completely false.
The real story is the Soviet-style grid management from ERCOT and the ersatz free market approach to energy in Texas. If the electrical grid has been poorly managed, blame the managers, not the electricity providers. I’m looking at you ERCOT and you Governor Abbott and everyone else who has been resisting attempts to invest in Texas infrastructure over the last few decades.
Steven A. Guccione 