Almost three years since the deadly Texas blackout of 2021, a panel of judges from the First Court of Appeals in Houston has ruled that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the crisis. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market.
The decision seems likely to protect the companies from lawsuits filed against them after the blackout. It leaves the families of those who died unsure where next to seek justice.
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This week, Chief Justice Terry Adams issued the unanimous opinion of that panel that “Texas does not currently recognize a legal duty owed by wholesale power generators to retail customers to provide continuous electricity to the electric grid, and ultimately to the retail customers.”
The opinion states that big power generators “are now statutorily precluded by the legislature from having any direct relationship with retail customers of electricity.”
It’s a free open market.
If you lose your power, just switch to another supplier that doesn’t go down.
EDIT: HAHA didn’t know I had to put a obvious /s on this comment, but there ya go.
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“If the air is polluted, just switch to a new air supplier”
Are you under the impression that you can just switch providers in the middle of a blackout?
Wow, guess you guys missed the HARD /s on that one lol
It’s like that time I had a seizure and my bad that the ambulance took me to an out of network hospital. My mistake.
It must be wonderful to live in a place that doesn’t monopolize necessities. I have exactly one source of power and I’m not even in Texas. I have one source of Internet, I have one source of water. :(
again… that’s a hard /s
That’s the joke. No one can just switch to a different provider willy nilly.
That’s a wooooosh for me then sorry lol there are too many people that say what you did with a straight face so you never know. Poes law and all that jazz :P
Good thing there’s only one provider in Texas.