Posted on 08/04/2011 4:27:46 PM PDT by dragnet2
HOUSTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Extreme heat and soaring power demand may force the Texas power grid operator to impose rolling outages on Thursday to prevent a wider blackout as residents struggle with a record-breaking heatwave.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ERCOT, warned there was a high risk of rolling outages as the state's power reserves were nearly wiped
The state -- broiling under a relentless streak of 100-plus Fahrenheit temperatures and drought...straining power plants.
Earlier, ERCOT moved to curtail power to some industrial customers Thursday afternoon as a way to boost surplus power to keep residential air conditioners
Rolling, or rotating, outages are temporary controlled outages where power delivery companies cut to small areas for periods of 45 minutes or so.
Real-time power prices again jumped to the maximum cap of $3,000 per megawatt-hour while power for Friday delivery rose to nearly $600 per MWh, the highest in more than a decade.
Texas also saw record power monthly power peaks in May, June and July.
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And the 5 Nuc Plants
TT
124 in Phoenix! Wow!
They get paid when their power is shut off?
Go home and get paid too. Sounds great!
Maybe you should research your own topic.
We need to re-charge more Chevy Volts on the Texas power grid !!
125 sold last month , and GM claims a sales doubling of profit !... where did it come from ? Sales marketing = as soon as they come off the assembly line mark them as sold, and then send them off to the cardealers sales lot where they collect rust waiting to be bought ? (See Ponzi scheme)
just like Don Quixote - chasing wind mills !
Jerry Jones must not need power for his stadium. They haven’t cut off the nursing homes yet.
They get paid when their power is shut off?
Maybe you should research your own topic.
BTW, I'm not the author, nor is it my topic.
These companies get paid for what?
In 2006 TXU wanted to build 5 new power plants but the envirowackos including the democratic leaning mayor, Laura Miller, demanding that they be halted. The company was sold and the plants which would be on line now - are not avaiable to help . People forget we are growing and folks from Calif and NYC want a/c not heat stroke - build baby build.
Please read post 25.
Thanks and good evening.
Well no sh!t!!! When you are trying to cool the homes of legal citizens PLUS one and a half million invaders from ME-HEE-CO....
So when the power gets shut, those Americans with heat stroke will have to stand behind the illegals getting their free medical care at the hospitals.
You can always tell who the legitimate Americans are in places like that. Their the ones with the really angry look on their faces.
You seem upset..
G’night!
We need TWO hurricanes now. Back to back. When’s the last time you saw that?
Oh, silly me. Last summer.
OK even though that was a cheap shot, I’ll do your research for you.
Some heavy consumption customers have agreed to have power shut off and are compensated by ERCOT when and if the load on the grid is near maximum capacity. These are not rolling blackouts.
Thanks and goodnight!!
We need some real Divine intervention here. This is getting really old. See my tagline.
Sounds like a good deal!
Would that be the Laura Miller who is married to the father of Texas Re regulation?
The Laura Miller who is now the leader for a “clean coal” plant in West Texas?
I think it is...
too right
There IS a downside to having independent grids, like Texas does.
Exactly what Hussein's Energy czar is heavily proposing for the entire country.
All the better to control another enormous segment of the Nation's critical infrastructure.
Not too subtle, are they.
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