At a Public Utilities Commission of Texas meeting, an ERCOT representative said the power grid is ready to handle the load as temperatures are expected to tumble into the teens by next week.
Some of the coldest temperatures of the season are expected by the end of next week, with low temperatures well below freezing.Temperatures are expected to tumble into the teens by next week.At a Public Utilities Commission of Texas meeting in Austin Thursday, an ERCOT representative said the power grid is ready to handle the load.
"Right now, our current forecast in the DFW region is probably temperatures in the teens," Kristi Hobbs said.ERCOT said it could issue what's called an "operating condition notice" to power generators across the state as early as Friday. To put things in perspective, Dr. Joshua Rhodes, who is a research scientist at UT Austin, said that while the 50,000 megawatt range will be the highest that we've seen this month, it’s still much lower than the 80,000 megawatts we saw over a string of hot summer months, when the grid held steady.
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