You have companies with different expertise and perhaps innovation.

Lack of reliability is not innovation. This is something the Texas "real time power auction" has created and continues to promote.

Measures like the one the governor just signed are bandaids meant to cover up the fundamental lack of reliability.

There is nothing left to innovate in terms of reliability. The solution really is very simple --- build additional capacity to cover worst case scenarios.

This can't happen if providers are forced to continually offer a rock bottom price or lose out in the auction.

Some things are too important to leave to the "free market".

I am going to have to disagree. This is really not about Texas but folks get hung up on Texas. There are ways to have market based systems in the power grid while still maintaining capacity. Having a market based system does not mean you cannot have interconnects. I think Texas gets some things right and some things wrong but I believe it’s too easy to lump everything into the bad bucket.