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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.
The last reported blackout occurred on July 22, but was resolved the following day. [27] June 9—United States—350,000 people in Dallas County, Texas lost power after a severe thunderstorm downed hundreds of trees across the area. 200,000 remained without power on the evening of June 10 [220] and 16,000 on the afternoon of June 12 restored.
At the peak, over 5 million people in Texas were without power, [68] with 11 million experiencing an outage at some point, [22] some for more than 3 days. [69] During the period of outages, the wholesale electric price was set to $9,000/megawatt-hour which was the "system cap" set by ERCOT, [70] compared to a more typical $25/MWh. [22]
Storm Uri caused blackouts to millions of homes and businesses in Texas and led to the deaths of more than 240 people. The power crisis also prompted Texas to begin overhauling its grid to ...
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Half of U.S. outages caused by major events last longer than 12 hours, and more than a third last longer than a day, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. That translates to more days when outdoor air is affected by people firing up their generators.
In Texas, the risk of reserve shortage is greater than last winter mostly because of the robust load growth that is not being met by corresponding growth in dispatchable resources, the report says.
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