If Texas would get on the national grid, this would not be a problem, but because Texas wants to be in control of its own electrical grid and not be able to get power from places that are not using as much power, such as Montana or the Dakotas, we get in this mess every summer a...
We're dealing with rolling blackouts and other energy related shortages and issues, meanwhile, we're letting a lot of energy that we produced go unused. The fact that the Texas grid isn't connected to other grids, along with the needed upgrades, is why Texas had such huge problems duringt...
As the day wore on, many saw these blackouts extend for ever longer periods of the day, and grid authorities are expecting problems to extend into at least Tuesday. As of noon local time on Monday, the Southwest Power Pool, which serves areas to the north of Texas, also announced that ...
but theseextreme weatherevents are going to become more and more common and it will likely be worth the investment. Hot temperatures also pose many problems for thermoelectric power plants that rely on large quantities of water for cooling and producing steam, like coal and nuclear plants. More ...
As reported by Climate Central,the state of Texas didn't fare well when it came to problems with power during severe weather. Using data from the years of 2000 to 2023, Climate Central was able to determine where the most power outages occurred due to severe weather. The factors included ...
produced in Texas at any given time. Nuclear power constitutes roughly 11% of the total. While coal-fired and nuclear power plants ran into fewer problems as a result of Winter Storm Uri, their winterization failures did cut production of what is considered base-load power to the Texas grid...
The Texas power market's reliability and stable prices in the face of repeated brutal heat waves drew an analyst's praise July 31, but the natural gas-fired fleet's grueling workload could present reliability problems in late August and September as solar power output and daylight hours ...
we’re probably going to hit a million within three years. If everybody charges their electric vehicles at six or seven in the evening, as peak demand is rising, and as the sun is setting and our solar resources are starting to drop off, we’re going to have problems on the system,...
Adam Sinn, president of Houston-based energy trading firm Aspire Commodities, said ERCOT waited far too long to start telling utilities to cut customers' power to guard against a grid meltdown. The problems, he said, were readily apparent several days before Monday. ...
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — After nearly five hours of debate, Texas House lawmakers initially approved a slate of legislation aimed at reforming the state’s electric grid. The priority bills aim to prevent a repeat of the power problems Texas sustained during February’s winter storm. ...