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A select committee of the Texas state Senate lambasted executives from a Houston-area power company Monday over the utility’s preparation for Hurricane Beryl, which left millions of Texas ...
Beryl showed us yet again that upgrading the Texas power grid is critical. Here's how to do it and where its focus should lie. Texas must upgrade its power grid.
As a result, 85% [2] of Texas power consumers (those served by a company not owned by a municipality or a utility cooperative) could choose their electricity service from a variety of retail electric providers (REPs), including the incumbent utility. The incumbent utility in the area still owns and maintains the local power lines (and is the ...
Unlike other power interconnections, Texas does not require a reserve margin of power capacity beyond what is expected. [53] A 2019 North American Electric Reliability Corporation report found that ERCOT had a low anticipated reserve margin of generation capacity and was the only part of the country without sufficient resources available to ...
Fears of controlled outages popped up lafter Texas’ power grid operator ERCOT warned in a report published last week that it may have to force rolling blackouts as energy demand peaks in August.
This winter is forecast to bring sudden bouts of extreme cold to Texas that could test the state's electric grid in early 2025, the grid operator's chief meteorologist said on Tuesday, reviving ...
Texas produces the most wind power of any U.S. state. [5] [7] According to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), wind power accounted for at least 15.7% of the electricity generated in Texas during 2017. [8] [9] ERCOT set a new wind output record of nearly 19.7 GW on January 21, 2019. [10]
A woman whose home near Canadian, Texas, was destroyed in the record-breaking Smokehouse Creek wildfire is suing the power company, alleging that a fallen power pole near Stinnett started the fire.