Winter becomes the new Summer for ERCOT as reliability questions rise again

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's actually become a worse reliability time than summer.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The issues that popped up during winter. Store Marie still
exists to some extent, a lot of reliance on gas,
which can create problems when you have freeze ups in
the winter.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Bret Bennett of the TPPF says, we also have not
improved capacity issues, yet we continue to be reactive instead
of proactive because of smoke filled backroom dealings.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Everything comes from the legislature through the Public Utility Commission
that are caught, and there's politics at every level of that,
and politics is fundamentally reactive, he says.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
There reliance on green energy is also not helping meet
demand growth onto a parade. News Radio son forty KTRH