They pulled this excremental move and dare to warn us about a hot summer and rolling blackouts because demand is too high! ERCOT is staffed with incompetence at every level!

Y'all do know that Luminant(Vistra Energy) and Dynegy are merging and part of the deal
for the new company is that it has to tear down Monti and Big Brown or sell its 3 gas plants. They elected to keep the 3 gas plants(Graham, Stryker & Trinidad) and remove the lignite plants. They are saving lots of tax money that way.

This has nothing to do with the decision to shut the plant down. That seemed to be a foregone conclusion years ago. This is about the decision to leave one of the gates at the dam open full time to make the lake levels of Monti and Sandlin equal simply because no one would be there to open and close them as needed during a potential flood which is insane.

I've had a house on Cypress Springs since 2008 and have been fishing Monti 50+ days a year since. In all of that time, they've needed to open the gates twice....yep twice in 10 years but that was just too much to handle with them shutting the plant down. Plus, once the plant is gone, there is nothing at risk of flooding on that lake anyway.