Planning for Texas’ energy future must include drought proofing our energy supply with energy efficiency and renewable energy, not propping up old dirty fossil fuel plants. To that end, we applaud the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT – the Texas electric grid operator) for calling Luminant’s bluff to shut down the aging Monticello coal [...]
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ERCOT says Luminant can shut two Monticello power units
Posted in Air Quality, Energy, tagged electric reliability council of texas, ercot, Luminant, Texas on December 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Shut off unnessary equipment before ERCOT is forced to shut off power
Posted in Energy, tagged Energy, energy conservation, ercot, power grid, Texas on August 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
As temperatures soared yesterday, ERCOT estimates that electricity usage reached an all-time peak high (breaking Wednesday’s record) with Texans using 60,157 MW of power – flying past the official record set on August 31, 2000 when 57,606 MW of power was consumed by Texans in the ERCOT service region. “Texas is experiencing a very serious energy [...]
Which power plants caused the rolling blackouts?
Posted in Energy, tagged electric reliability council of texas, Energy, ercot, natural gas, Rolling blackout, Texas on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
ERCOT just released an updated list of all of the power plants that were not operating Feb 2, contributing to the power shortages that caused the rolling blackouts. That document is here, but we present the data below for your convenience. Notice a trend? Natural gas and Lignite coal were the main power sources that [...]
What’s the frequency, Kenneth? In this case it’s 60.000 cycles per second.
Posted in Coal, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, natural gas, Renewables, solar, Uncategorized, tagged Clean Energy, climate change, Energy Efficiency, ercot, Nikola Tesla, public citizen texas on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Come close together, cats and kitties, and gather ’round, while the Powerman gets his story-telling hat- the one with the fine white brim- slips it on and talks about what’s going down with a happening riff:, with a tip o’ the hat to Lord Buckley for those yet to be hip to the flip, we [...]
ERCOT Chair Steps Down Citing Personal Reasons
Posted in Energy, tagged ercot, PUC on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) just announced board of directors’ chair, Jan Newton, has resigned citing personal reasons. Ms. Newton served on the ERCOT board since 2006 and became the chair in 2008. Her resignation is the second major departure from ERCOT in the past eight months. In September of 2009, CEO Bob Kahn submitted [...]
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Posted in Global Warming, tagged abilene reporter news, cold wave, consumption, drought, electric reliability council of texas, ercot, greenland, heat wave, record energy use, summer, Texas, winter 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, [...]
Perry spews hot air on warming
Posted in Global Warming, tagged amarillo, andy wilson, carbon regulation, Clean Energy, climate change, electrical reliability council of texas, electricity, ercot, Global Warming, governor rick perry, green energy, green jobs, hot air, Inconvenient Truth, public citizen texas, Renewables, rose bowl, union of concerned scientists, university of east anglia, University of Texas, wind power on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Op-ed originally published in Sunday’s Amarillo Globe: Column – Andy Wilson: Perry spews hot air on warming AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry’s recent essay (“EPA ‘science’ doesn’t add up in global warming equation,” Dec. 27, 2009) is full of hot air and not much else. The governor’s outrage produces more heat than light, revealing his [...]
Another Texas Wind Project Up and Running
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged Clean Energy, ercot, green jobs, north american wind power, NRG, Texas, wind power on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to San Angelo, Texas, where a new 150 MW wind farm is up, spinning, and on with commercial operations. According to North American Wind Power, The project’s 100 General Electric 1.5 MW turbine generators are expected to generate more than 525,000 MWh of wind energy per year, which will be sold into the ERCOT [...]
Hot Texas Summer Leads to Record Energy Consumption
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, tagged baseload, Coal, Consumers, electric reliability council of texas, energy use, ercot, fort worth star telegram, generation capacity, grid, june, Nuclear, outages, peak energy, power grid, record electricity consumption, reuters, solar, summer, Texas 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 [...]
Earth Day Alert: STOP the fast-tracking of water permits for nukes
Posted in Nuclear, tagged dan flynn, ercot, governor perry, house environmental regulation, Luminant, nuclear plant, Nuclear Power, water permit on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HB 2721 threatens to fast-track water permits for nuclear plants, which use vast quantities of water. Water is precious, and Governor Perry has just requested federal aid for all 254 counties in Texas due to statewide drought. Water permits should be given careful scrutiny, and not be rushed. This bill, which will be heard tomorrow [...]
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