Nearly 60% of electricity generated by Texas’ coal-fired power plants could go away...
ERCOT and the PUC have said they are worried that retiring coal and natural gas plants too quickly could affect the reliability of the state’s power grid. Reliability has been a main focus of regulators, who desperately want to prevent another blackout after the deadly power outages of Winter Storm Uri in 2021.
Dispatchable generation is a frequently used term in the industry referring to power-generating resources that could be turned “on” for power when it’s needed, such as natural gas, coal, nuclear and geothermal energy. Texas officials dispute whether battery storage counts as dispatchable. That’s in contrast to resources such as solar and wind power which depend on weather conditions to generate electricity.
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