ERCOT's June outage report confirms Texas natural gas and coal plant failures
ERCOT report confirms gas- and coal-fired plant outages played big role in June grid woes Morgan O'Hanlon, The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN — New data from ERCOT confirms that issues with thermal energy sources, including coal and natural gas, were largely responsible for the smaller-than-expected generation capacity on the grid that led to supply concerns in June. Information about which power plants had unplanned outages in June, rattling public confidence in the Texas power grid, was released Wednesday by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. There were more than 1,200...