ERCOT to have tighter power supply in summer 2016: report
An Electric Reliability Council of Texas report released Tuesday shows the independent system operator expects the supply of electricity to be tighter in summer 2016 than it did in the May version of the report.
ERCOT’s Capacity, Demand and Reserves report, which is issued twice a year, forecast a planning reserve margin of 16.5% in the coming summer. When the same report was issued in …
by James Osborne
Fears that Texas might not have enough electricity in the years ahead have all but been extinguished by a flood of new gas turbines and solar and wind farms, the state’s grid operator said Tuesday.
In a report examining the grid’s power supply and consumer demand over the next decade, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said its reserve margin – the percentage of electricity available above what is used – will exceed 20 percent by 2017. The current minimum reserve level is 13.75 percent, a standard ERCOT estimated it would not meet …