Author: Terri Gruca
AUSTIN, Texas — The KVUE Defenders have been looking into the power issues facing the state and we’ve got a new look at unplanned outages taking place this summer.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) asked people to reduce electricity use in June after 12,000 megawatts of power generation unexpectedly went offline – enough to power 2.4 million homes on a hot summer day.
ERCOT just released a list of those outages and, since the beginning of June, there have been 1,144 unplanned outages.
The Defenders broke them down by fuel type and found that the majority of them, 507, were …