ERCOT Off Guard In Texas

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The main electric grid operator in Texas, ERCOT, is dropping the ball on providing services again, this time during extreme heat. It’s asking residents to conserve electricity until Friday to keep up with demand. Approximately 12 gigawatts of generating capacity was offline on Monday, and the electricity demand by residents came dangerously close to exceeding the grid's capacity. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 climbed over 600,000 yesterday, according to the tracker from Johns Hopkins University. Still, there's progress in the country towards the new normal, with California and New York among the states fully reopening on Tuesday. And in headlines: Israel's military launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip despite the ceasefire, Biden announces a plan to combat domestic terrorism, and a lawsuit resurfaces phony poison milkshake allegations from last summer. Show Notes: NYT: "The Amazon That Customers Don’t See" – https://nyti.ms/35nsYSH For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday June 16th. I'm Hila Hughes.
0:09.0	And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what day the podcast that is funded by money vapors
0:13.2	coming off donations from Mackenzie Scott.
0:15.3	Yeah, it's not the donations themselves. It's just the vapors that are in that to sustain us.
0:20.6	Too be clear, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife gave us nothing and she never will.
0:24.1	Yeah, it doesn't matter how many letters I write. She's not gonna pay these student loans,
0:27.6	I guess.
0:35.2	On today's show, we look at two major reopenings as the country hits a grim COVID milestone,
0:40.0	plus we'll have headlines.
0:41.7	But first, the latest.
0:43.5	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic.
0:49.4	All right, without the video, it's hard to know, but that was Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
0:54.0	In a video that he tweeted of himself on Monday, reciting the pledge of allegiance to no one
0:57.9	typical, normal guy behavior, instead of showing any allegiance to the people of Texas
1:03.1	who are once again the victims of bad weather and worse utilities.
1:06.7	So what is the latest down there, Kila?
1:08.9	All right, so we spoke last week about the heat wave that's coming in hot across the
1:12.6	West and Southwest and of course Texas is also feeling the heat.
1:16.3	And Texas's main grid operator, Irkott, not to be confused with the more fun Epcot,
1:21.2	is drop the ball, pun intended, on providing services again.
1:25.5	Approximately 12,000 megawatts of generation were offline Monday or enough to power 2.4 million
1:30.4	homes on hot summer days like the ones we're experiencing this week.
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