Information I'd be interested in seeing from BTU and CSU:
- what sections of the grid can't be shut off (due to the presence of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, emergency services, water treatment plants, etc, or to being 'upstream' of those sections), how many customers are in those sections, and how much of the total load (power allotted by ERCOT) do those sections account for?
What I'd like to know from ERCOT is how much generation capacity was offline, and why?
And I'm entirely OK with holding people's feet to the fire if they, or their elected representatives, voted to require their local utility to get some % of it's power from "green" sources. (Environmentalists don't consider nuclear to be 'green', even though it's zero-carbon. Hydro (which environmentalists aren't fond of, either) and geothermal aren't really viable in Texas, which leaves wind and solar. Which aren't doing much right now.)
Most of the people who vote for (or elect people who vote for) that sort of thing tend to live in cities, or the well-to-do suburbs of big cities.(I'm looking at you, Austin)