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May 14, 2022 3:29 PM SB: Dan Patrick was rightIt was the Senate’s presiding officer who insisted after Winter Storm Uri that Texas needs more electricity generation while the governor ignored him; now the Abbott Administration appears to be playing a deadly game of hide-the-ball with energy conservation alerts From DFW to Houston and
from Austin down to San Antonio and The Valley, a pretty typical
Friday night played out across Texas. Restaurants, bars, and other businesses
were filled with customers likely unaware that the state’s power grid was under
stress because the heat knocked six power plants offline. Gov. Greg Abbott met
with PUC and ERCOT leadership earlier in the day, releasing a
photo of that meeting around 2:45. It was around 2:30 that grid problems
started to arise, but ERCOT did not call for Texans to conserve electricity until
after 5pm on a Friday – precisely the worst time to attempt to communicate an
emergency message to the public. What a politically dangerous
and potentially deadly game of hide-the-ball. The Abbott Administration
is betting the grid will hold up and going through the motions of technically asking
Texans to conserve when almost no one is paying attention.
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