The Biden administration Dept of Energy basically ordered ERCOT to throttle its energy output by forcing it to comply with environmental green energy standards, limiting what power Texas could produce in-state to "protect the climate," and ordered them to use outside power so they could be charged more during the emergency

Jan 20th, 2021: Biden signed executive order “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” which, in part, suspends EO 13920 for 90 days.

25 Days later. on Feb 14th (after Texas has already been in the storm for a few days) The Department of Energy issues Order No. 202-21-1, which orders Texas to use outside power, and limit power availability to certain hours with the front of reducing emissions.

The order instructed an “incremental amount of restricted capacity” to be sold to ERCOT at “a price no lower than $ 1,500/MWh,” an increase of over 6,000 percent over February 2020 prices of $ 18.20.

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