Craig Goldman: “ERCOT tells the energy producers how much energy they need…”

“Will you explain more like what their roles are? Yeah. So ercot, basically it's just an entity. It's more like a pass through. ERCOT tells the energy producers how much energy they need based on, based on how much is being consumed out there. So ERCOT would tell the power companies, I need this many more thousands or hundreds of kilowatts because we know that this many more people need, you know, they're turning up their furnaces and so they need more heat.” (22:17–22:27)

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