FuelFix
by Ryan Holeywell
HOUSTON — The state’s power grid experienced rotating outages for the first time since 2011 late Wednesday afternoon after a pair of power plants went offline.
The outages affected the Rio Grande Valley for about two hours, said Robbie Searcy, a spokeswoman for Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates most of the state’s grid.
Searcy said the Rio Grande Valley has been a particularly challenging area for ERCOT to manage because it has a limited number of transmission lines serving the region. As a result, it’s difficult for the region to pull power from other…