Report on Electric Grid Cites Concerns With Reserves
A 135-page report by a Massachusetts-based consulting group adds to the mounting body of analysis that the Texas electric grid does not have adequate reserves for future years, and it outlines ways to address the problem.
The report by the Brattle Group was released Friday by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the electric grid that spans most of Texas. It comes two days after a national study singled out Texas and California as facing especially tight electric supplies this summer.
The report found that low natural gas prices, an efficient fleet and a burst of wind ...
Comments (4)
namoyer
ERCOT is an oxymoron, run by morons! With unregulated power generators, no one is held accountable for assuring adequate reserve capacity. The TxPUC is an impotent, anti-consumer organization. Pay residental users $9000/kw-hr to defer/reduce electricity use, and it'll happen faster, than speculators will build extra generating capacity. And, what about all those shutdown plants?? ERCOT should be ordering them to be prepared to fire up and meet demand. Pay small generators $9000/kw-hr, and residential solar installations will blossom. ERCOT/PUC--lead, follow, or get out of the way!
Rudy Gonzales
Higher electricity rates should never have occurred as Texas has known for over ten years that Texas would have to comply with EPA Clean Air Act. And yet Texas allowed Coal burning plants to be built, when gas prices had and have been going down. Rates are based on Gas rates and that has been going down. Rates should be going down. Rick Perry and the Pansy-Wansy Legislature have gone against the federal government as if they don't have any rights to have any say in the "Clean Air Act." Every TEA-Republican politician in Austin is culpable and responsible for this increase. Fire every TEA-Republican in Austin who voted to go against the federal government's "Clean Air Act." The coal plants that have gone up should be converted at the expense of the owners who knew better. When your electrical bill goes up - blame Rick Perry and the incompetent TEA-Republican Legislature!
gypsy314 ne
with 57 plus power plants closed makes one wonder if Obama and democrats care????
gypsy314 ne
Win riots start be prepared to protect your self and home. Obama was planning for people to panic and all hell to break out so he can take charge under his special powers. Think about it people with out power will cause all hell to break out.