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ERCOT Board to review February 2nd “Event”

Posted in Energy, tagged , on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

ERCOT has moved their regularly scheduled board meeting up from Tuesday to Monday, February 14th to allow for a special 2 hour time to take up a review of February 2, 2011 Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Event.

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PUC seeks authority to unilaterally fire an ERCOT CEO

Posted in Energy, tagged , , , on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In a Public Utility Commission (PUC) hearing on Thursday, to address what happened to cause the rolling blackouts of Feb. 2, members of the commission accused the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) of ignoring dire energy forecasts, failing to communicate with other important decision makers, and understating the risk of rolling blackouts. As part of [...]

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Was there a gas shortage during the rolling blackouts? Not if you had the right contract.

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , on February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Texas Railroad Commission added an emergency item to their agenda today so it could hear from the Texas Energy Reliability Council about natural gas service’s impact on the rolling blackouts that swept the state.  They told the Commission that Texas was never in danger of a natural gas shortage during last week’s statewide deep freeze and no [...]

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PUC Executive Director gets the ball rolling on a blackout inquiry

Posted in Energy, tagged , , , , on February 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Brian Lloyd, the executive director of the Public Utility Commission has directed the electric reliability monitor (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and the electric market monitor (Potomic Economics)  to investigate all of the events surrounding last week’s rolling blackouts and electric generation failures.  This includes “all preparations” made by ERCOT and all actions taken [...]

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Rolling blackouts – who profits?

Posted in Energy, tagged , , , , on February 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Wednesday, State Rep. Lon Burnam and his staff got little in the way of a satisfactory answer from ERCOT as to why as many as 50 power plants were off line, and predicted that the issue will remain a hot topic especially in light of the fact that ERCOT is up for a sunset review [...]

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Who didn’t contribute to yesterday’s rolling blackouts?

Posted in Renewables, tagged , , , , , , on February 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Yesterday, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said cold weather had knocked out about 50 of the 550 power plants in Texas, totaling 8,000 megawatts.  We can’t tell you which plants were down because that information is considered “confidential under market rules.”  According to ERCOT’s website, its market rules “are developed by participants from all aspects of [...]

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Rolling Blackouts, who’s to blame?

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2011 | 12 Comments »

A massive winter storm rolled through Texas last night causing 7,000 megawatts worth of power plants to shut down and in the wee hours of the morning, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid operator, declared an energy emergency. ERCOT called on state energy suppliers to cut about 4,000 megawatts worth of power [...]

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Wind still making in roads into the Texas energy portfolio

Posted in Renewables, tagged , , , on January 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »

When Texans turn on their lights, run their air conditioning, charge thier cell phones or even plug in their plug-in hybrid cars, they are getting an increasing amount of power from the wind.  Figures released by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the pseudo state agency that regulates the Texas electric grid, earlier this month [...]

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ERCOT Launched the first phase of NODAL

Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged , , on December 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas ran its “one day-ahead market” under the new nodal configuration yesterday and say that, as of last night, the old zonal market has been laid to rest forever. Nodal is a market redesign and technology upgrade designed to enable location-specific pricing at more than 4,000 nodes instead of the [...]

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Portland General Electric plans to shut down its coal plant by 2020

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Austin is not alone in preparing for clean and affordable energy. When good news like this comes across the internet like this, we have to share. From the cloudy northwest: Portland General Electric Co. would shut down the state’s only coal-fired power plant 20 years earlier than planned under a proposal it hopes to finalize [...]

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Baby It’s Cold Outside

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

So put on a sweater and crank up the thermostat! That was the major trend late last week and over the weekend, when arctic weather led Texas to set another winter power usage record.  According to the Abilene Reporter News, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid operator for most of the state, [...]

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Hot Texas Summer Leads to Record Energy Consumption

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Just four days into summer, and we’re already are setting records for energy consumption in Texas.  Yesterday Reuters reported that the Texas grid had set a new record for peak energy consumption in the month of June.  With temperatures already in the 100s in our largest urban ares, thermostats are cranking across the state, and [...]

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