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Dirk Schwenk (Esq) 🎵
DirkSchwenk
Dear Texas: Did you know the budget for CEO's office ERCOT was $2,100,000+ for salaries and benefits? (and of course there's permanent savings by not hiring the person that was
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Tamoria Jones
icedsweetee
More interesting facts on ERCOT: The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court's ruling that the state power grid manager is entitled to sovereign immunity, a legal
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Kevin Carden
Kdcarden
Thread on ERCOT reliability: I run a small resource adequacy consulting firm that analyzes reliability across the country. Our clients among others include ERCOT, SPP, and MISO. All three entities
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Nathan Bernier
KUTnathan
I'm on an ERCOT media call now. I'll post some of the stuff they say here. ERCOT CEO Bill Magness says they're still working with power generators to get them
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Gerad Tod
gerad_t0d
Reiterating: you're all wrong about electricity markets and they don't work like they think you do.Source: Myself Start here if you want to understand what's going on in Texas. Think
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John Kemp
JKempEnergy
POWER GRID FAILURES never have a single cause. Grids should be managed conservatively with multiple layers of protection and reserves. Even if there is a single proximate cause, such as
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JesseJenkins
JesseJenkins
Update: I've been digging into ERCOT's opaquely labeled Hourly Resource Outage Capacity data here. Current hour report below. Here's how to read it:TotalResourceMW = Thermal Geneators (gas/coal/nuclear) out right now
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Colin Allred
ColinAllredTX
I’m on a call with ERCOT right now and have been told that the crisis we are in was caused by unprecedented demand for power and power generation units going
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Claire McInerny
ClaireMcInerny
I'm am on a call with ERCOT right now who is giving an update on the power outages in Texas.@KUT has a live blog going today with all of the
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Daniel Cohan
cohan_ds
ERCOT expected to get low capacity factors from wind and solar during winter peak demand. What it didn't expect is >20 GW of outages from thermal (mostly natural gas) power
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Chuck DeVore
ChuckDeVore
See the second page of @ERCOT_ISO's latest reliability assessment. http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/197378/SARA-FinalWinter2020-2021.pdf Under the top table describing the reserve margins, they have a table labelled “Range of Po
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Simon Mahan
SimonMahan
Texas, specifically ERCOT, is going to get a lot of #energytwitter attention over the next week, as we're hit by an historic winter burst. But it's mainly because so much
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Denton Municipal Electric
dmepower
OUTAGE UPDATE: Rotating outages were discontinued this morning at 1:00 a.m. However, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) remains at Energy Emergency Alert Level 3. (1/4) As temperatures fall
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JesseJenkins
JesseJenkins
This is not correct. The PUCT statement says NOTHING here about gas generators disconnecting. It says that the Commission directed ERCOT to raise electricity prices to $9000/MWh during demand disconnects
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Michael Paulauski
mike10010100
This dude is the mayor of Colorado City, Texas.Good fucking god they're fucked. https://twitter.com/mike10010100/status/1361810173082402822 "UTILITIES YOU PAY TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON OWE YOU NOTHING!" I should say *was* the
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Chuck DeVore
ChuckDeVore
Much misinformation out there about #Texaspoweroutage, @ERCOT_ISO, wind and solar power, and thermal generators (gas and coal). Let's review what we think we know right now. @TPPF @Life_Powered_ 1/10 Two
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