- June 16, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Joe Mastrangelo on energy storage, Texas
Texas is again facing a power squeeze as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) asked residents this week to conserve as much power as possible until Friday.
The conservation request is sure to trigger flashbacks to February when millions were left without power in sub-freezing temperatures. Now, residents are asked to use their air conditioning sparingly with Texas in the midst of a summer heatwave.
As of Tuesday, over 12,000 megawatts of the state’s roughly 86,000 megawatts of generation capacity were offline, or enough to power 2.4 million homes.
ERCOT officials said the outages were ” very concerning” and unplanned, and warned that by Tuesday the demand for electricity could begin stressing its reserves.
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“I don’t have any potential reasons [for the plant outages] that I can share at this time,” Warren Lasher, ERCOT senior…
