Texas officials have warned they may need to use rolling blackouts to ease the strain on the state’s power grid this winter, despite the same strategy resulting in over 200 deaths during a previous storm.
Deaths were registered as a result of hyperthermia due to indoor temperatures plunging to deadly lows, accidents and carbon monoxide poisonings, as people turned on heaters and grills in a desperate attempt to stay warm.
ERCOT decided to adopt the rolling outage strategy after the grid began to buckle under demand, later admitting at one point it was just four minutes and 37 seconds away from total collapse.
This combined with the lack of new natural gas plants which can produce energy on demand and the weather created a perfect storm which left millions without power and water.
‘The resource mix that’s changing on the grid isn’t really helping to pick up the growing peaks in the winter,’ ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told the Boston Globe.
While wind turbines and solar panels froze, a major nuclear plant lost half of its generation, and there were massive failures in coal, oil, and natural gas.
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Texas officials have warned they may need to use rolling blackouts to ease the strain on the state’s power grid this winter, despite the same strategy resulting in over 200 deaths during a previous storm.
Deaths were registered as a result of hyperthermia due to indoor temperatures plunging to deadly lows, accidents and carbon monoxide poisonings, as people turned on heaters and grills in a desperate attempt to stay warm.
ERCOT decided to adopt the rolling outage strategy after the grid began to buckle under demand, later admitting at one point it was just four minutes and 37 seconds away from total collapse.
This combined with the lack of new natural gas plants which can produce energy on demand and the weather created a perfect storm which left millions without power and water.
‘The resource mix that’s changing on the grid isn’t really helping to pick up the growing peaks in the winter,’ ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told the Boston Globe.
While wind turbines and solar panels froze, a major nuclear plant lost half of its generation, and there were massive failures in coal, oil, and natural gas.
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