My understanding is too many were offline for maintenance and some of those remaining online couldn’t take the load.
Yep Abbot=Pence
We just returned from a road trip to Phoenix (we live in Kentucky).
I was shocked at just how many wind generators we saw in Texas. If they are moving towards depending on that they are about to be in a world of hurt.
If this helps the Ukraine war effort and/or Globull warming, I’m all for it!
They broke it—we used to have no problems.
Let’s add power shortages to the growing list of disasters under our illegitimate POTUS.
Diesel Fuel, Baby Formula, Food, Fertilizer, Electricity, am I missing something.
With ongoing maintenance, these problems should be avoided.
I hope it’s not too hot in Texas at present, as we know high demand for electricity for air conditioning will cause even more problems if the grid is stressed.
Good time to do maintenance when temps are hitting the upper 90’s. We are ruled by incompetent boobs.
Let’s be honest about this. 20% of their power comes from wind and solar and those systems are having production problems, from maintenance to storage issues. You think this is bad, imagine what will happen if the Green idiots pass the ban on distillate fuel engines my 2030. Imagine several million people plugging in their cars for a recharge just as the sun goes down.
shrugs. they could of had Lt. Col. West.
Cali 2.0?
These were all natural gas turbines that tripped out. Maintenance season should be over by May but the industry has been dragging their feet. Prices yesterday shot up to $4 per kilowatt hour on the ERCOT market I dumped 120 kWh from my panels and battery banks in the grid to help out made $480 bucks in just over two hours. Maxed out my 300 amp grid tie and also the 200 amp guest house in the back. I’ll happily take the money to help the grid out.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas is in need of a vast rethinking of its priorities. With the generous supply of natural gas readily available, there should be NO reliance on solar or wind power generation at all, and if they want to keep up those ornaments for public display, adjust the electrical power rates accordingly. Do not do things on the cheap, or this agency will go the way of Pacific Gas and Electric, a scapegoat for every ill the (sometime in the future) state government in the hands of (il)liberal Soviet style Democrats can lay upon them.
Consider the fate of the State of California, once a fairly reliable Republican bastion, as the environmentalists gradually wormed their way into political power, and the policies of the generation of electrical power including its distribution.
May has been unusually warm around Houston.
Just one of the many practice runs of the kleptocrats saving the planet from the Hoi Poloi.
How could a grid connected to solar panels and windmills go down?
Don’t Unicorn farts keep everything running and save the erf?
sounds like some people should run out to the electricity stations to fill up their electric cans just in case they need to keep driving their overglorified golf carts...
I worked as an operator for ERCOT for over 20 years.
With very little input from ERCOT operations are abiding by Protocols written by the Market Participants.
The market design was to reward generators during scarce times.
Wind generation with their PTC had a field day.
Thermal generators could not compete in a market with wind bidding in at zero or less and shut down.
All fine and dandy when the wind blows.
Millions of illegals and electric vehicles. What could possibly go wrong?