Re: Local generation
1) There are interconnectors from Texas to the other grids
That would be new then: last I looked only a small corner of Texas had any kind of connection to outside the state.
The second assertion is half correct: The Texas grid is defined for political reasons (system cost). But the result of that was that the Texas grid was not connected to the adjoining grids, and the result of that was that the grid-interconnect connections did not exist. Why would you dedicate land, local planning approval, design effort and capital to unused grid-interconnect systems?
Texas had decided that they did not want the standards, regulation, and cost associated with grid-interconnect. They may have changed their mind since the last debacle, but if there is any significant grid-interconnect now, that was done on a startlingly fast timeline: getting local planning approval for new HV transmission lines, and acquiring the land rights, is a process that normally takes years, not months.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
