Our state is increasingly wind- and solar-powered, but a proposed legislative bill looks to kneecap those gains.
That’s longer than a cross-country drive, according to Google Maps. Similar to adding new ... CREZ, designed to deliver electricity from West Texas wind farms to major population hubs, was ...
ERCOT, the electrical grid operator for most ... temperatures were expected to range between 7 degrees and 17 degrees. Wind chill values will drop below 0 degrees, getting as cold as minus 10 ...
ERCOT board votes to close two oldest CPS Energy gas units, use generators from Houston CenterPoin and LifeCycle instead ...
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ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said he expects an adequate supply​ of electricity to meet demands during this winter weather event.
Or else, you wind up with more sore points like ERCOT is already dealing with in South Texas, where it sometimes has to curtail generation at the risk of overcrowding transmission lines. “ ...
On Wednesday, according to live grid conditions, ERCOT had about 10,000 megawatts ... We have pretty strong wind today. That's going to be declining as we go through the evening into tomorrow ...
At that time, ERCOT’s fuel mix dashboard showed about 39% of the grid’s supply was from gas-powered plants, 31% was from solar, 15% from coal, 7% from wind, 7% from nuclear and less than 1% ...
He added that ERCOT's estimates undervalued the state's growing solar and wind energy resources. "When you essentially push down on the amount of generation and push up on the amount of load ...
Wind forecast models call for sharp rise in ERCOT wind power from late February Wind farms are the largest power source in Texas behind natural gas, and along with solar farms accounted for a ...