As Texas grid managers at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) were forced to issue their second conservation warning in three days due to marginal available generating capacity on Wednesday, a new “I did that” meme began circulating on Twitter and other social media platforms.
the state’s first wind energy mandate, a renewable energy credit trading program that launched a great expansion of subsidized wind power in West Texas, which has in recent years expanded into South Texas as well.
It is entirely fair and accurate to say that the Texas Republican Party has presided over the creation of this grid every step of the way. By the time Mr. Abbott was sworn in as Governor on January 20, 2015, the critical problems impacting the stability of the Texas grid had already been readily apparent to anyone paying attention for four years.
Gov. Abbott had been in office for six years before Uri came through, but neither he, his appointees at the PUCT and ERCOT or the Republican-dominated legislatures had chosen to take the actions they all knew were needed to correct the variety of weaknesses impacting the grid. It was always more politically expeditious to keep kicking the can down the road and hope ERCOT could continue holding things together with its figurative duct tape and bailing wire.
But all the tape and wire fell apart during Uri, right in the middle of the 2021 legislative session, and Gov. Abbott famously promised in a statewide televised speech that he would keep calling the legislature back into as many special sessions as necessary to ensure all of those weaknesses had been addressed.
Abbott didn’t follow through on that promise, and this week’s multiple conservation warnings by ERCOT highlight the one big problem area that still has yet to be addressed. That problem area is a chronic shortage of dispatchable reserve thermal capacity, which becomes crucial on days like the state has seen this week when the wind in West Texas tends to die as the temperature rises past 100 degrees.
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