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‘ One energy company alerted ERCOT, Texas officials days before winter storms of potential problems ‘ - btfc - 02-21-2021
‘ The Dallas congressman made the statement on Saturday after speaking with Curt Morgan, CEO of Irving-based Vistra Corp. It owns and operates the Luminant energy company.
Allred said Vistra, which was prepared for the severe winter weather, drastically increased its output to make up for those power generators who went down in the storm.
“They told me their team began to sound alarms on Feb. 9 when their meteorologist saw freezing temperatures in the forecast, knowing Texas’ infrastructure was not built for much less than 10 degrees. They alerted ERCOT immediately, as well as the Texas Railroad Commission and other state government officials,” Allred said.
“By their account, no one seemed to react with the haste and urgency they believed necessary, and they emphasized that ERCOT’s projections of the power supply were far below the demand they were seeing."
The congressman now questions whether ERCOT, an independent 501©4 corporation, state officials and other power generators took the severity of the forecasts seriously.
“We knew this storm was coming well enough in advance to take commonsense actions, like the ones Vistra did, to salvage as much power as possible” ‘
https://www.wfaa.com/amp/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/texas-congressman-one-energy-company-alerted-ercot-texas-officials-days-before-winter-storms-of-potential-problems-no-one-listened/287-3448f926-6a40-41f9-b5a7-b081a775a958
Re: ‘ One energy company alerted ERCOT, Texas officials days before winter storms of potential problems ‘ - bfd - 02-21-2021
Wonder how many former Enron employees/board members were involved in this fiasco… they made their first illegally grabbed gazillion in Cali. Maybe Ahnalt should make a run for Governor in TX.
Re: ‘ One energy company alerted ERCOT, Texas officials days before winter storms of potential problems ‘ - Filliam H. Muffman - 02-22-2021
ERCOT board doesn't care, most of them live outside of the third world country of Tejas.