“As renewable energy makes up a greater share of the grid, ERCOT said it has posed new challenges too, such as power availability that depends more on weather conditions. Clean energy developers, meanwhile, have accused ERCOT of discriminatory policy before, most recently for utility-scale battery storage.”
ERCOT hates Green Energy because it lowers electricity prices. Republicans hate this type of business model.
The problem is gas generators.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/ercot-grid-failure-renewable-19416583.php
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When we had the snowpacalypse it wasn’t because of wind or solar (ERCOT said it was) it was because gas generators were competing with homes whose heaters used natural gas.
Wind and solar were working quite well.
ERCOT is owned by Big Fossil (as are most agencies in Texas—corruption here is the norm, not the exception). It’s so bad that Abbot wants to play with small nukes instead of more batteries (despite Musk selling them). Nuke waste? Not his problem.
Reality is not a Texas thing.