Update:Texas Group ERCOT Has Come To Rely on Conservation Alerts as a Normal Operating Procedure Rather Than an Exceptional Emergency Measure. The Problem Is Not the Weather but the System Design Itself, Which Has Insufficient Capacity to Match Load Growth

Texas Factories Dial Back Power Usage To Balance Strained Grid HNewsWire: Update, Some of the country’s most powerful political authorities neglected to allocate funds appropriately, resulting in the recent outages of the electric system. There are certain people who need to be held accountable, and I believe the next election will bring about significant alterations as a result of the ongoing grid crisis. For the second time this week, Texas’ power grid operator took emergency action and asked customers to conserve power Wednesday afternoon to avoid rolling blackouts as a heatwave strained power supplies. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) sent customers notices three hours before 1400 local time to reduce power instead of the 18-hour notice for Monday. ERCOT blamed Wednesday’s conservation appeal on record high electric demand and the lack of wind and solar power as a…

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Life is About to Get Extremely Harsh, This Country’s Electric Grid is in Shamble–Texas

Electricity Prices Explode With Power Grid On Verge Of Another Meltdown… Goldilocks will not be pleased. Texas power prices infamously exploded higher during the frigid temperatures of the February winter storm that crippled so much of the state; and this time, amid blisteringly hot temperatures, Texas power prices are exploding higher once again as The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) asks Texans to reduce electric use as much as possible today through Friday, June 18. ERCOT issued the following Conservation Alert: A significant number of forced generation outages combined with potential record electric use for the month of June has resulted in tight grid conditions. Generator owners have reported approximately 11,000 MW of generation is on forced outage for repairs; of that, approximately 8,000 MW is thermal and the rest is intermittent resources. According to the summer Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy, a typical range of thermal generation…

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