Texas lawmakers are considering a power grid fix that ignores last year’s blackout. | mosebuchele
“This is a remarkable milestone for [the Electric Reliability Council of Texas], the market and also for the state of Texas,” said PUC Chair Peter Lake when unveiling the report. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is the state's electric grid operator.
After those “high-risk” hours are identified, utilities and electric retailers that consumed power at those times are required to also buy the performance credits from the power generators. “Further analysis would be needed ... to develop a corresponding reliability standard [to that winter storm]. Such analysis is beyond the scope of this study,” the"It’s remarkable to me that they did not run a Uri-like scenario and see how these different structures would would hold up” says Doug Lewin, head of the consulting firm Stoic Energy.
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