People Who Moved To Texas From California Finally Feeling At Home Now That Power Is Out

TreeFrogTrader said:
Microgrids daisy chained together or hooked to the grid but able to function standalone are the wave of the future which has in fact already arrived.

Used to be that micro-grid development was for remote off-grid communities who do not have access to the state or national grid but that has all changed. Now you have communities/corporations such as in California that want to be on the grid but also want to be able to keep functioning as the state and national grids become increasingly unstable due to overload, cyberattack etc and also cause lots of forest fires.

People are dumping on Texas as though they are independent cowboys for having their own grid and not being progressive by being on the grid. Nope, they have problems within their own grid which need to be fixed but every community and state needs to have a functioning system that is not dependent on the national grid when some 15 year old hacker in Crapistan decides to take the east or west coast down.

Getting everybody on electric vehicles will not help either. It becomes yet another dimension of your life that is down and out when the national or regional grid is down and out.

Eventually many of the local microgrids will be powered by hydrogen- needs a few more years on it. Bloom Energy, Ballard Power, Fuel Cell, type companies are making progress. Hopefully, a trillion dollar porkulus infrastructure program will at least carve out some bucks to advance that cause. That would be the hope anyway.
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I discussed micro-grids earlier in this thread
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...that-power-is-out.356119/page-14#post-5326483
 
gwb-trading said:
Sorry you can't sue us for the deaths of hundreds of people because we are immune due to being a public agency. Also - you can't see any records because we are a private agency.

ERCOT claims it’s a public agency immune from lawsuits, while also claiming it’s not a public entity required to release records
“The fact that you can't know what's going on is problematic,” said Arif Panju, a board member of the Transparent and Accountable Government Coalition (TAG).
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/l...cold/287-b13a9814-b41b-4665-bb39-534291853fa7
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So which is it, Ken? Is ERCOT a public entity that cannot be sued? Or is it a private entity that does not have to release its records?

Attorney General Ken Paxton rules ERCOT not subject to Texas Public Information Act
Ken Paxton’s ruling means documents and communication about February’s tragic winter storm will not be released.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business...-not-subject-to-texas-public-information-act/

Attorney General Ken Paxton finds in a ruling that the Public Information Act would not apply to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, meaning documents, text messages, e-mails, and recorded phone calls about February’s deadly storm will not be released.

Following an onslaught of records requests related to the winter storm and the ensuing power grid crisis, ERCOT attempted to limit the amount of information it would have to release. In March, ERCOT claimed it was a public agency, and therefore immune from lawsuits. It also claimed the Public Information Act does not apply because it was not a public entity, which, under Texas law, is required to release records.

Open government advocates have criticized the refusal to release records, saying ERCOT information is a matter of public interest. The state health department has identified more than 150 deaths directly related to the winter storm, and a Buzzfeed investigative report estimates the death toll to be closer to 700.

Joe Larsen, a Houston-based attorney who sits on the board of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, told the Texas Observer in March that challenges to a ruling such as the one issued Tuesday by Paxton could spur lawsuits and possibly head to the state Supreme Court.

Texas’ grid operator is defined as an “independent organization,” certified by the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

In a March letter requesting an AG ruling, Jay Stewart, an attorney representing ERCOT, wrote that the Legislature did not explicitly subject ERCOT to the state’s public information act, but, because it performs a public function, “the PUC has established a public-information regime that accounts for the unique nature of the information ERCOT holds.”
 
smallfil said:
Watch it Austin, Texas. That seems to be the destination of choice of Hollywood extreme liberals. Just as they ruined Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon----California extreme liberals will destroy your city, then, the entire state of Texas if you give them enough chances.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/three-hollywood-stars-recast-lives-120238575.html
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I think Austin is reaching full Californication at this point.

New targets to destroy seem to be Nashville and AZ.

Yeh. Feel the love.

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said: "I AM NOT GAY BUT- HEY- $20 IS $20."

Toto, I don't think we are in Maine anymore,

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People say they are moving because of taxes. But the states they just escaped from were just given billions of federal bailout dollars to fund their pension liabilities and service their massive debt. Biden just gave California $1B for highspeed rail to nowhere.

The truth is that there is no escape. You will pay for most of California's nonsense even if you live in Boise. Insane leftist spending has been federalized.
 
Snarkhund said:
People say they are moving because of taxes. But the states they just escaped from were just given billions of federal bailout dollars to fund their pension liabilities and service their massive debt. Biden just gave California $1B for highspeed rail to nowhere.

The truth is that there is no escape. You will pay for most of California's nonsense even if you live in Boise. Insane leftist spending has been federalized.
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Talk about getting something exactly backwards. California makes Boise possible. never-mind California gives more than it gets in terms of taxes and Idaho is a dependent of the federal system. I’m saying Boise would be a trading outpost if it wasn’t for California. Do you have any idea of the logistics it takes to get goods to Idaho and the role a state like California plays in supplying the west and southwestern states.

It’s like when Americans in rural and suburban areas knock cities. They have no idea that their way of life is directly dependent on the organization and distribution of goods and services from incredibly productive US cities.

It astounds me that you guys have no idea you’re basically one supply line away from being subsistence farmers.
 
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