Same (April 12, 2024) as it ever was (thread start date: April 13, 2021):
“Summer is two months away, yet the Texas power grid is already swooning. On Friday the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) asked power generators to postpone scheduled maintenance early this week “to help alleviate potential tight conditions” as temperatures rise into the not-so-sizzling 80s. ”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-power-grid-energy-electric-reliability-council-of-texas-efd5990e?st=dxl8wjyustco7f4&reflink=article_copyURL_share
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/ercot-urges-texas-power-plants-skip-maintenance-stay-online-meet-increased-demand/
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This raises a lot of questions because ERCOT has traditionally planned around the hottest days of the summer. That’s when we need power plants and all energy generators to be available.
And if you start seeing situations where these facilities can’t shut down for maintenance in what used to be the milder times of year to prepare for the summer, then people start to worry about what will happen in the summer when we get these super extreme hot days.
If the power plants aren’t ready for that because they haven’t been allowed to prepare for it, that has raised concern, and it does raise concern.”