> how far forward the Texas grid is when it comes to renewables. And how far backward Texas is with respect to the grid. When the big freeze went through, ERC

> how far forward the Texas grid is when it comes to renewables. And how far backward Texas is with respect to the grid. When the big freeze went through, ERCOT didn't have the ability to actually cut manufacturing plants off. They could only manipulate the price. They had to get on the phone and request that various manufacturing facilities voluntarily shut themselves down. In addition, part of the problem with the big freeze was that there isn't sufficient granularity in the grid. You couldn't cut off enough people because the grid chunks were also connected to hospitals, fire stations, etc. None of this has changed. Thus, you couldn't do rolling blackouts with enough demand slack to actually allow you to roll them. On top of that, it is not at all clear that Texas has a plan to restart the grid from scratch if it actually needs a full reboot. None of this is new. The Federal government documented all this 10 years before the big freeze. Everybody documented it after. Nothing has changed. > Texas cutting itself off from the national grid, is now at the bleeding edge of renewables. Texas cutting itself off from the main grid is also why the grid is at the mercy of renewables. Side note: one of the driving forces for Texas' renewables push was that T. Boone Pickens was trying to monopolize water rights and was using renewables as way to get them.