[sbe-eas] How Texas plans to communicate with you if another winter storm leaves us in the dark

[Aaron Read]

Never mind that, we're in "come up with new ways to blame our (stupid)
customers for our failures" territory here.

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 3:07 PM Ben Overbaugh <boverbaugh at rioradio.org>
wrote:

> Don't fix the problem, just come up with new rules to let people know the
> system is broken again.
>
> Ben Overbaugh, CBRE (He/Him)
> Chief Engineer
> KJZZ * KBAQ * Sun Sounds
> Office: 480-774-8412 <(480)774-8412>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 9:34 AM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article256686832.html
>>
>>
>> [...]
>> ERCOT, the state’s power grid operator, also has a new strategy for
>> social
>> media.
>>
>> “ERCOT keeps its communication tool on the sideline in case of
>> emergency,”
>> Lake said. “They’re not tweeting about the weather. ... If you see a
>> tweet
>> from ERCOT, it’s serious. This is an emergency tool, communication tool.
>> We will only use it in case of emergency.”
>>
>> About one in five Americans are active on Twitter, according to the Pew
>> Research Center.
>>
>> Senate Bill 3, the state’s grid reform bill, establishes an emergency
>> alert system for power outages similar to a Silver or Amber Alert.
>>
>> A rule related to the system and when it would be activated is pending
>> before the commission. Comments are due Jan. 11.
>>
>> “It’s never going to be, kind of, fly by wire again,” Lake said. “So it’s
>> an entirely new communication protocol.”
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