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AUSTIN — With critics questioning whether legislation signed to reorganize the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ leadership and overhaul the state’s electric grid is sufficient, state officials contend there’s another reason to be optimistic there will be enough power to meet demand through a long hot summer. The state’s “summer reserve margin,” or generating capacity exceeding demand, is ...
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Austin — Ante los cuestionamientos de que las leyes aprobadas para reorganizar la dirigencia del Consejo de Confiabilidad Eléctrica de Texas (ERCOT) y la...
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How a week-old fire at Comanche Peak shut down a nuclear power unit and pressured Texas’ grid How a week-old fire at Comanche Peak shut down a nuclear power unit and pressured Texas’ grid The cause of fire in a main transformer at the plant 60 miles southwest of Dallas remains under investigation. The Unit 2 reactor at Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Glen Rose.(Tom Fox/Staff Photographer / THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS) 6:47 PM on Jun 15, 2021 CDT One of the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant’s two units has been offline for more than a week following a June 7 fire in the main transform...
An electric meter in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Austin during the winter storm. State lawmakers and Gov. Greg Abbott have said making sure Texas never suffers a blackout like the one we just went through is a top priority this legislative session. What can they do to keep that promise? Hearings this week in the Texas House and Senate helped answer that question. Here are eight things that became clear during the hearings: It Goes Beyond ERCOT Texas' grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, received most of the blame in the immediate aftermath of the blackouts. The group ...