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ERCOT said it's working to store up more non-renewable electricity so it will have extra power in the system in case energy usage spikes this winter.More than two years later, the images still haunt so many of us as we approach winter.
"When it happened before, I had no idea the grid was so delicate, and now I'm acutely aware," Houstonian Samantha Wolcott said. "So, I've stocked up on things, just in case the power goes out at random." To prepare for extreme winter weather, ERCOT officials want to store up more non-renewable electricity.Remember that cold weather that hit Harris County last December?
It was nowhere near what we saw in 2021, but ERCOT officials say without extra power reserves, even a hard freeze like December's could push the grid into a 20% chance of an energy emergency."You have to keep the supply and demand in balance over very, very short periods of time. Otherwise, the system gets out of kilter, and we can have a very dangerous complete black-out," Peter Hartley, with Rice University's Baker Institute, said.
"The reserves are going to be provided by plants you can ask to be turned on or off," Hartley said. "The problem is that you can't turn the sunshine on or the wind on. The sun is either shining, or the wind is blowing, or it's not."Case against former HPD officer dismissed due to missed deadline
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