Sky-high heat prompted Texas’ grid operator to call on residents to conserve electricity as the system was pushed to near-emergency conditions Monday and...
, but natural gas plants were also producing significantly less power than normal.
“A hot summer’s day at noon, you’re going to have low wind [production],” Lewin continued. “If this is news to ERCOT, then that’s distressing and begs a lot of questions.
“Wind is doing exactly what historically we expect it to do, and no one installs wind with the expectation that you will get 100% capacity production on a hot summer day,” Silverstein said.
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