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Rayburn Electric Cooperative Goes Live with PCI’s Cloud Platform to Meet its Member Billing Requirements
April 14, 2021 GMT
HOUSTON (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 14, 2021
Rayburn Electric Cooperative, (“REC” or “Rayburn Electric”), has gone live with PCI’s Enterprise Platform to manage its member billing and settlement validation requirements in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) power market.
As part of this new partnership, PCI deployed its specifically tailored, cloud-based, integrated platform to replace Rayburn Electric’s legacy system and several in-house applications. The new Member Billing Solution implemented by PCI, enables Rayburn Electric to:
ERCOT s request for consumers, businesses to conserve energy tonight has ended KHOU 11 Staff, WFAA Staff
ERCOT urges energy conservation through tonight
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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said its request for consumers and businesses to conserve energy Tuesday night has ended.
As of about 8:45 p.m., ERCOT said its request had ended. Our energy conservation appeal has ended without the need for an energy emergency. Thank you for conserving energy when it was needed, ERCOT said in a tweet.
Our energy conservation appeal has ended without the need for an energy emergency. Thank you for conserving energy when it was needed. ERCOT (@ERCOT ISO) April 14, 2021
Yes, Overreliance On Wind And Solar Helped Feed Texas’s Power Outages
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This storyline also claimed a lack of electricity from wind and solar had nothing to do with the disaster that claimed 111 lives. Instead, the blackouts were the failure of normally reliable thermal power natural gas, coal, and nuclear due to a reluctance to spend billions of dollars to winterize facilities throughout a state more known for persistently hot summers than for transient polar vortices.
A variant of this liberal argument was posited by Pedro Gonzalez at American Greatness. The headline echoed the corporate media’s main gloat over Texas’s misfortune: “When the Free Market Freezes Over.” Unfortunately, Gonzalez, as with leftist media and the environmentalists he draws upon, make a few assertions that turn out to be not quite so.
April 12, 2021
This storyline also claimed a lack of electricity from wind and solar had nothing to do with the disaster that claimed almost 60 lives. Instead, the blackouts were the failure of normally reliable thermal power natural gas, coal, and nuclear due to a reluctance to spend billions of dollars to winterize facilities throughout a state more known for persistently hot summers than for transient polar vortices.
A variant of this liberal argument was posited by Pedro Gonzalez at American Greatness. The headline echoed the corporate media’s main gloat over Texas’s misfortune: “When the Free Market Freezes Over.” Unfortunately, Gonzalez, as with leftist media and the environmentalists he draws upon, make a few assertions that turn out to be not quite so.
KSAT Explains: The ‘total breakdown’ of the Texas power grid
Episode 26 examines the February winter storm and power crisis that followed
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SAN ANTONIO – In mid-February, Texas was hit with a winter storm unlike any we’ve seen in years. Record-low temperatures caused a deadly power crisis that left millions without heat or reliable water for days.
We later learned we were just four minutes and 37 seconds away from a catastrophic power grid crash that would have left the majority of the state in the dark for weeks.
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In the wake of that storm, Texans are left with a lot of questions. Who should take the blame? Will the fallout force state lawmakers to take action? Will we be prepared for the next winter storm?