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Mixed Message Delivered in the (Political) Theater of the Absurd

PUCT and ERCOT continue to confuse and confound the public, blaming renewables for their own lack of action

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Doug Lewin
May 05, 2023
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The sky is falling. And everything is great!

Such was the message at a bizarre PUC and ERCOT press conference Wednesday. Ostensibly, the purpose was to release two reports on grid reliability. Instead, it turned into a political exercise — another effort to spin Texas’ ongoing grid problems as something somehow caused by the state’s nation-leading clean …

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