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When you share resources regionally, you lose the autonomy to make decisions that can benefit your community but may not serve the interests of the other communities you’re partnering with, or the bureaucrats who run such a cooperative. What if the residents of Texas want to prioritize funds differently from say those in Kansas? Or go to a different power source altogether? The incessant media coverage of the frankly rare grid failure in North Texas a few years ago reeks more of politics than anything else. Overnight everyone in America became “experts” in grid design and reliability. Why do those outside Texas seek to control its resources and bypass local autonomy? The usual answers, power, money, and a more beneficial outcome for those outside of Texas than for those inside.
There have been far more grid issues on the East Coast and In California than the one grid event ever in Texas.
100% true. Talk to your procurement. They made the deal in exchange for lower electricity rates.
Most power issues are not actually grid problems, but rather reliability problems from your local delivery provider.
There are logistical considerations, considerations just do to geography, but you are not wrong that there is a political component. Grids crossing state lines give up local control. Texas is big enough to support its own grid and enjoys having local control over its own grid
If by “most power issues” you mean the shorter duration disruptions that happen from storms due to downed trees, etc., I would agree with you. However, the most pressing issues with the Texas grid are, in fact, due to 1) not enough power generation during extreme weather events and 2) that Texas doesn’t import power. These are problems specifically resulting from Texas’s grid design and lack of regulated returns for power generation.
Under normal weather conditions the grid in Texas works wonderfully and delivers energy at a great price. But in extreme conditions we see exacerbated problems.
Having worked with most of the utilities in Texas, I can say that unless there is incentive to build new generation (that can produce power in extreme heat and cold) at reasonable returns, we may see more issues in future hot summers and cold winters.
I present to you an important word “Subsidiarity” - which is an organizing principle that says matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority.