re: Joe Biden’s Dept. of Energy Blocked Texas from Increasing Power Ahead of Enduring Storm

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ERCOT said themselves that the permission was granted.

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Permission to increase output was granted but permission to exceed emissions regulations WERE SPECIFICALLY NOT GRANTED.

ERCOT needed approval for both and did not get permission granted on both. Why do you keep ignoring that?

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So you are agreeing that they were indeed not granted permission? They could not increase output without exceeding levels and the text you quoted in previous posts clearly indicates the feds did not give ERCOT permission to increase emissions.

It is the equivalent to telling someone they can borrow your car but the fuel tank has to remain empty. Sure you gave them permission to borrow your car but you negated anyway for them to operate the car.

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For that reason, ERCOT asked the department for authorization for “all electric generating units” that are part of its network “to operate up to their maximum generation output levels under the limited circumstances described in this letter, notwithstanding air quality of other permit limitations.”

Three power agencies told ERCOT that operating for maximum output would push them over limits set in federal permits for emissions of nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, mercury along with release of wastewater, according to the letter.

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ERCOT asked for leeway on those limits during its energy emergency, which expired on Feb. 19. It described its request as “narrowly tailored to allow only the exceedances that are necessary to ensure reliability over the next few days” and noted that power generated under the request would be the last used to fill its needs.

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“ERCOT does not lightly request this authorization. It understands the importance of the environmental permit limits that are at issue. However, in ERCOT’s judgment, the loss of power to homes and local businesses in the areas affected by curtailments presents a far greater risk to public health and safety than the temporary exceedances of those permit limits that would be allowed under the requested order,” ERCOT wrote in its request.

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DOE’s order acknowledges that Texas’ shortage of electricity generation was an emergency that it was seeking to remedy.

Huizenga wrote in the order that the department was granting the request because of that emergency and that it was limiting operation above the permitted level “to the times and within the parameters determined by ERCOT for reliability purposes” to “minimize adverse environmental impacts.”

A list of power-generating units that the order applied to also was included and updated nine times while it was in effect.

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You are an embarrassment to your family.

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You are an embarrassment to your family.

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Do you know how hard it is to read a post written like yours? All the random CAPS and **** everywhere.


For someone with your OBVIOUS INTELLECTUAL TALENTS? Yes, I can see how you find it difficult to f*cking read.

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Dude has to look as goofy as the pic he has under his username.

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They approved the request, and even stated that ERCOT could exceed environmental regulations, however, they are requiring them to import more pricey renewables and submit all kind of insane environmental disclosures with crazy deadlines. They essentially buried ERCOT in paperwork. I'd be interested to hear from ERCOT on whether they were even able to comply with these conditions. That's the real story. If they did, this is a nothingbuger.

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So that means you dont look like a goofball irl

Cmon man

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