A few more days of grid emergencies around 8pm when solar (very predictably) goes off and wind hasn’t yet spun up. Can’t seem to get straight info on why this is happening even on days below recent record electrical use. KUT seems to have the answer. Lack of power lines from wind energy rich south Texas to the rest of the state. Estimates are that it is costing consumers $2 billion a year. By “costing consumers” they mean “profiting legacy thermal energy producers”.

ERCOT can’t move energy where it needs to go, and it’s putting the grid at risk