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0 pointsbradknowles1y ago0 comments

Correction, the fat cats who own ERCOT don’t like that.

Your regular run of the mill Texan may not care one way or the other, most times. But if they get into a crunch where their electric bills are much higher, I assure you that they will care.

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gruez1y ago

>the fat cats who own ERCOT don’t like that.

And who are those? Wikipedia says:

>ERCOT is a membership-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation,[11][12] and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.[13]

It's not "owned" by anyone.

herewego1y ago

You are uninformed. ERCOT is heavily influenced (“owned”) by Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) and market makers that are profit seeking entities. This is true of all ISOs for all intents and purposes. It is the primary reason why the U.S. grid is slow to innovate/change, e.g., implementing distributed generation participation in wholesale markets, etc.

bradknowlesOP1y ago

Thank you! You said it better than I could have!

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