Energy executive: Texas power plants turned off in crisis
Source: AP
AUSTIN The recent blackouts that left 4 million Texas customers without electricity and heat during a deadly winter freeze also unplugged plants that could have generated more power, which was urgently needed as the state's grid reached the breaking point, the head of a major energy corporation said Thursday.
Curtis Morgan, the CEO of Vistra Corp., told lawmakers at the outset of a public hearing on one of the worst blackouts in U.S. history that when officials from his company called utility providers, they were told they weren't a priority.
"How can a power plant be at the bottom of the list of priorities?" Morgan said.
"You-know-what hit the fan, and everybody's going, 'You're turning off my power plant?'" he said.
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soothsayer
(38,601 posts)riversedge
(70,415 posts)ananda
(28,891 posts)Corruption, thy name is the Texas GQP.
Montauk6
(8,087 posts)Grokenstein
(5,729 posts)Then, when shit goes down, MILK THAT COW WITH BOTH HANDS.
mackdaddy
(1,530 posts)Look how much money they made by shutting down a few power plants.....
catrose
(5,076 posts)Who cooked the books and left us all to pay the bills?
It's Enron, ron, yeah, it's Enron, ron.
And so on