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Last Updated on: 25th March 2025, 12:58 am
The fossil fuel industry in Texas loved ERCOT, the grid operator for much of the Lone Star State, when the only electricity generated in the state came from thermal generating stations powered by coal or methane. The founding premise for the current version of ERCOT, which was created in 1999, was that the cheapest electricity available at any particular time would get priority access to the grid. That worked swell until the levelized cost of renewable energy from things like wind turbines, solar farms, and battery storage facilities became lower than electricity from thermal generation. That has led to more renewable energy being installed in Texas than any other US state.
You know how the right-wing crazies are always screaming at the top of their lungs about how government should not be…
