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reduce electric use as much as possible today through Friday, June 18. A significant number of forced generation outages combined with potential record electric use for the month of June has resulted in tight grid conditions. Generator owners have reported approximately 11,000 MW of generation is on forced outage for repairs; of that, approximately 8,000 MW is thermal and the rest is intermittent resources. According to the summer Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy, a typical range of thermal generation outages on hot summer days is around 3,600 MW. One MW typically powers around 200 h...

ERCOT is asking Texans to reduce electric use as much as possible today through Friday, June 18. According to a press release from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), tight grid conditions are expected due to a high number of forced generation outages. Basically, what happened during Winter Storm Uri could happen again, but this time in the sweltering heat of summer. Get our free mobile app ERCOT sure has a lot of nerve playing with Texans again. "We will be conducting a thorough analysis with generation owners to determine why so many units are out of service," said ERCOT Vi...

Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 5:08 PM click to enlarge Courtesy Photo / ERCOT ERCOT is asking Texas power consumers to lower their usage during peak hours. Days after Gov. Greg Abbott said the Legislature had passed reforms that fix "all of the flaws" in Texas' power grid, its operator asked residents to curb their power usage because it was ...

Texas Residents Asked Once Again to Reduce Electric Usage Well...that didn't take long. Just a week or so into some of our hottest temperatures of the Summer and ERCOT (The Electric Reliability Council of Texas) is asking Texans to reduce electric use as much as possible through this upcoming Friday (June 18).  ERCOT attributes the tight grid conditions to "a significant number of forced generation outages combined with potential record electric use for the month of June." Oncor is echoing this call for conservation in its role as the transmission and distribution company, or the poles and w...

The North American Electric Corp. (NERC) is warning that large swathes of the North American bulk power system (BPS) could face “elevated risks” of energy