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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) manages the flow of electric power on the Texas Interconnection that supplies power to 26 million Texas customers – representing 90 percent of the state's electric load. [3] ERCOT is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States [4] and one of nine ISOs in North America. [5]
The Texas Interconnection covers most of the state of Texas. Interconnections can be tied to each other via high-voltage direct current power transmission lines ( DC ties ), or with variable-frequency transformers (VFTs), which permit a controlled flow of energy while also functionally isolating the independent AC frequencies of each side.
The Tres Amigas SuperStation (lit. ' Three Friends SuperStation ') was a project proposed in 2009 to unite North America’s two major power grids (the Eastern Interconnection and the Western Interconnection) and one of its three minor grids (the Texas Interconnection), with the goals of enabling faster adoption of renewable energy and increasing the reliability of the U.S. grid. [1] [2]
Diana Groom, Abilene Reporter-News. May 14, 2024 at 2:02 PM. ... Abilene police and the Texas Rangers are concurrently investigating the incident, according to police.
Oct. 14—On Tuesday, City Manager Ron Marsh met with representatives from Kansas Gas to hold a pre-construction meeting for the Manufactured Gas Plant remedial project, located at the corner of ...
Nov. 26—Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle will publish over the next several weeks, which will address the pros and cons, the opposition ...
In the same year, Joseph G. McCoy purchased 250 acres of land north and east of Abilene, on which he built a hotel, the Drover's Cottage, stockyards equipped for 2,000 heads of cattle, and a stable for their horses. The Kansas Pacific put in a spur line at Abilene that enabled the cattle cars to be loaded and sent on to their destinations.
Abbott held a media conference at a construction site while O'Rourke spoke a former Chinese food restaurant.