This summer’s sweltering heat has put tremendous stress on Texas’ power grid, with the state setting 10 new records for electricity demand.
This summer’s challenges have raised more questions about the power grid’s reliability and what more the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the grid manager, should do to shore it up.weatherize for the cold
“These high temperatures are driving record demands for this time of year,” Pablo Vegas, ERCOT’s president and CEO, said in a Wednesday letter to the U.S. Department of Energy that asked for the temporary suspension of emissions rules. Lewin also called on ERCOT to prioritize programs that would pay residential and small business consumers to use less electricity. Such programs already exist for big power users like manufacturers and cryptocurrency miners. On Wednesday, Riot Platforms, a bitcoin mining company, said it received $31.7 million in energy credits in August from ERCOT for reducing its energy usage.
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