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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/16/21 07:49, Matthew Petach wrote:<br>
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<div>Isn't that a result of ERCOT stubbornly refusing to
interconnect with the rest of the national grid, out of an
irrational fear of coming under federal regulation?</div>
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<div>I suspect that trying to be self-sufficient works most of
the time--but when you get to the edges of the bell curve
locally, your ability to be resilient and survive depends
heavily upon your ability to be supported by others around
you. This certainly holds true for individual humans; I
suspect power grids aren't that different.</div>
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If there was a state-wide blackout, they'd need to restart from the
national grid anyway. Why not have some standing interconnection
agreement with them anyway, that gets activated in cases such as
these?<br>
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Sorry, unfamiliar with U.S. politics in this regard, so just doing
1+1.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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