To date, there are more than 120 retail electric providers who are all competing for your business. The second thing that power to choose can refer to is the Power to Choose website founded by the Public Utilities Commission of Texas. The Power to Choose website was the very first online...
Which grid helps power the Entergy Texas service area?While most Texans are connected to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) power grid, Entergy Texas, along with a few other utilities in Southeast Texas, operates in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (or MISO) power grid...
Texas is on it's own grid and not connected to the rest of the United States of America so, any extra juice we have goes unused. If the grid doesn't get the required upgrade the percentage of "lost" energy could grow to almost 15% of wind generated power and almost 20% of solar ...
The Texas grid is called ERCOT, and it is run by an agency of the same name — the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. ERCOT does not actually cover all of Texas. El Paso is on another grid, as is the upper Panhandle and a chunk of East Texas. This presumably has to do with th...
By Wednesday, 46,000 megawatts of power were offline statewide — 28,000 from natural gas, coal and nuclear plants and 18,000 from wind and solar, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid. “Every one of our sources of power supply ...
The growth of batteries was evident last week when energy storage facilities injected a record amount of power into Texas’ electric system. It was badly needed on an evening when the state’s primary grid operator had called on consumers to conserve energy. ...
Why was the electric grid so damaged by winter weather?The MIT Technology Review’s Amy Nordrum explainsthe fragility of Texas’ power grid, and how a lack of winterized infrastructure has ripple effects for the whole state. Plus, she talks aboutthe successful landing of NASA’s Perseverance ro...
Demand for data centers, AI could test Texas power grid Experts say the Texas power grid is expected to see a spike in demand in the coming years and preparations need to be made now to keep up. The head of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas told its board of directors on ...
account. (Bloomberg) — The Texas grid operator said that there's the potential for emergency conditions early next week because of a risk of low power reserves. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or Ercot, said it may need to call on generators that are scheduled to be down for ...
"Every grid operator and every electric company is fighting to restore power right now," Electric Reliability Council of Texas President (ERCOT) and CEO Bill Magness said in a statement. ERCOT manages power for more than 26 million Texans, about 90% of the state’s electric load. ERCOT on...