Texas' Isolated Electric Grid Could Add Outside Ties
Last summer, when the brutal heat strained Texas’ electric grid and increased worries about blackouts, the grid imported a modest amount of power from Mexico and elsewhere in the United States.
“It obviously helped,” said Dan Woodfin, the director of system operations for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, the grid operator. Those electricity imports amounted, on some August days, to nearly the equivalent of a nuclear reactor’s output, or enough to power more than 200,000 homes in the summer.
The Texas electric grid is proudly isolated. While most other states operate on a pair of ...
Comments (4)
Elmo
Turn the dang natural gas plants on that are setting idle TXU. Natural gas is at record lows meanwhile coal is at record highs
gypsy314 ne
I say hell no to joining the rest of the nation on there grid believe me they will pull from Texas not the other way around. We have a ton of LNG and should build a extra power plant to take care of Texas first. Now wind and solar power sell to the rest of the nation if we have extra but we should always keep our grid to Texas for Texas only.
Anyone BUT the Fraud Obama and democrats!
cal morton
Offer a state-wide $1.50 a watt rebate for solar and Texas homeowners and businesses would likely install about a 1GW of capacity in the next 2 years... no need to build transmission lines.
namoyer
ERCOT (oxymorons) and TX PUC, both run by, for, and of the idiots!
And, Gypsy, go plug yourself into the wall!
Yeah, get some decent solar rebates here in TX, and Dow and others will have a field day with residential installations...