The Electric Reliability Council of Texas forecast sufficient installed capacity to meet peak demands in the fall - October and November - under normal conditions, with 77.4 GW of resource capacity expected to be available and an expected peakload of 64.9 GW, but one extreme scenario could require...
“Today’s launch of the first phase of the Tesla Virtual Power Plant is a milestone for Texas residents, Texas distribution utilities and the ERCOT grid,” said Tesla Senior Vice President of Powertrain & Energy Engineering Drew Baglino. “Our collective work has allowed Tesla to bui...
Bitcoin mining is booming in Texas. Based on operational capacity confirmed by aNew York Times investigation, the activity uses at least 1,787 MW of electricity, or 2.2% of baseload, in ERCOT. Our study found that during typical autumn conditions, subtracting the load due to mining redu...
Enhancing the Reliability of Bulk Power Systems against the Threat of Extreme Weather: Lessons from the 2021 Texas Electricity Crisis The February 2021 cold weather outages in Texas remain a subject of importantinvestigation, and lessons learned from the crisis have broader relevance for ... CL ...
If generators in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas maintain the level of availability this summer the way they did in 2018, the market "will see similar prices," the director of ERCOT's Independent Market Monitor said Thursday. "It has been a wet spring, and wet springs portend not...
If generators in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas maintain the level ofavailability this summer the way they did in 2018, the market "will see similarprices," the director of ERCOT's Independent Market Monitor said Thursday."It has been a wet spring, and wet springs portend not a ...
The storm has caused serious outages across the country, including in Louisiana, Mississippi and Kentucky. But the outages were most severe in Texas because the state runs on its own electric grid, ERCOT – a way to avoid federal regulation – and cannot easily borrow power from other states....