ERCOT officials, worried Friday morning that the state's power system was on the brink, asked the U.S. Department of Energy for its OK to bypass some emissions standards.
ERCOT officials, worried Friday morning that the state's power system was on the brink, asked the U.S. Department of Energy Friday for permission to allow it to bypass some emissions standards for power plants and to authorize"all electric generating units located within the ERCOT interconnection to operate up to their maximum generation output levels" during the freeze this weekend.
In plainer language, that means if those units stay offline, and if other units trip offline, ERCOT might have ordered local utility providers to rotate power outages Friday evening, Saturday morning, Saturday evening or Sunday morning. ERCOT also asked the feds if some generators could operate outside of federal emissions limits if the grid enters emergency conditions, and the Energy Department authorized the requests on Friday, according to an order issued by the department.
ERCOT begins taking reliability actions automatically at 3,000 megawatts and enters its lowest stage of emergency conditions when there are fewer than 2,300 megawatts of reserves and that number is not expected to recover in 30 minutes.From frigid bats to frozen pipes, Houstonians take on the frigid temperatures
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