Author Mark Watson
Houston — Although the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has cut its projected load forecast by 1,496 MW and raised its expected summer reserve margin to 12.6% because of the coronavirus pandemic, the grid operator Wednesday said it still expects to set a peakload record, drawing conflicting responses from industry analysts.
ERCOT released its final Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy for summer 2020, June through September, projecting a peakload forecast of 75,200 MW, which would exceed the …
