Paladin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:27 pm This simple paperwork blunder left Texans cold during the deadly freeze
... dozens of natural gas facilities had not filled out a three-page application for outage exemptions before the storm, meaning their facilities lost power at a moment when their fuel was needed most to feed struggling power plants.
Deepening the puzzle is that the same problem was identified during the state’s last major freeze, in 2011.
...Generators and pipeline owners balked at weatherizing their equipment. Lawmakers and regulators neglected to exercise meaningful oversight of the state’s deregulated power industry, leaving it vulnerable to emergencies. Even power to the grid’s single biggest fuel source, natural gas, wasn’t secured.
Some millennial back in 2011 probably said "oh, we'll have to schedule a meeting sometime to discuss that!".Deepening the puzzle is that the same problem was identified during the state’s last major freeze, in 2011.
