Let's talk about Texas, ERCOT, and the future....
Belle of the Ranch
Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bow again. |
| 0:03.4 | So today we are going to talk about Texas and what we can learn from Texas. |
| 0:08.6 | Those people who need to know, those people in the state, I'm sure they are already aware, that from 2 PM to 8 PM today, you are being |
| 0:18.0 | asked to conserve energy. And if you don't, well you may experience service interruptions. To be honest, even if you do, you may experience service interruptions. |
| 0:27.0 | To be honest, even if you do, you may experience service interruptions. |
| 0:34.4 | Because it's an effort where everybody has to come together, right? |
| 0:41.4 | So your neighbor who doesn't turn off their pool pump, doesn't adjust their |
| 0:47.1 | thermostats, so on and so forth, that may be what causes the interruption. So it could still happen even if you do your part. And that's |
| 1:00.6 | the part you need to pay attention to. |
| 1:04.0 | What you are experiencing in Texas, it's occurring because it's hot. |
| 1:10.0 | It's hot because of that, people are going to use more electricity trying to stay cool. |
| 1:18.7 | The reason there's going to be interruptions is I'm not going to put a fine point on this. |
| 1:25.7 | Republican energy policies at the state level |
| 1:28.8 | and Republican energy policies at the national level. |
| 1:32.2 | That's why this is going to happen. It will happen more and |
| 1:38.4 | more as long as those policies remain. You don't have a reliable grid there. Every time the |
| 1:49.9 | Republican Party comes out and pushes back against clean energy, pushes back |
| 1:57.0 | against cutting emissions, pushes back against research into making that |
| 2:01.6 | energy even cleaner to developing storage, to |
| 2:06.2 | developing newer technologies to make it easier and cleaner to get the clean energy to begin |
| 2:11.8 | with. Every time they push back on that, what they're |
| 2:16.0 | really saying is, well, the people in Texas can do without a day, another day, because what's going to happen is they're going to want to |
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