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Today environmental and community groups wrote San Antonio Mayor and City Council and urged them to use surplus revenue from CPS Energy to help low income customers, reduce urban heat, and increase climate resiliency. #txclimate environmentamerica.org/texas/resource…
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Demand stayed just below 80GW today. Large customer #demandresponse in the form of a rate structure called 4CP (more in this thread) helped to increase reliability and lower costs. Large customers are paid for their reductions. Small customers are not. 1/🧵
#txlege #txenergy
#txlege #txenergy
We won't have a reliable and affordable grid without demand flexibility. It’s possible—maybe—to white knuckle it through a summer with aging power plants at an extra cost of billions of dollars each year. But there’s a better and cheaper way...
#energytwitter 2/
#energytwitter 2/
To have a grid that is reliable and a market that is affordable, regulators need to figure out how to incorporate demand flexibility into market design.
*Pay people* to automatically (no action required) shift use to times when power is cheap and plentiful to reduce peaks. 3/
*Pay people* to automatically (no action required) shift use to times when power is cheap and plentiful to reduce peaks. 3/
This Saturday, ERCOT expects 69.3GW of demand, an insane amount for a weekend in early May.
Temps likely to be ~92-93 in DFW and Houston, 95 in Austin, 100 in Midland & 104 (!) in Laredo. These would likely be records (or near records) for May 7.
#txlege #txenergy #txwx 1/5
Temps likely to be ~92-93 in DFW and Houston, 95 in Austin, 100 in Midland & 104 (!) in Laredo. These would likely be records (or near records) for May 7.
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I believe the previous record demand in May is ~67GW & all time summer peak is 74.8GW. That we would reach that much demand on a Saturday in May is extraordinary. Usually demand is much lower on the weekends. Extreme weather from #climatechange is already happening.
#txlege 2/5
#txlege 2/5
#ERCOT expects 20GW of thermal plants to be offline. Wind expected to be @ 12GW & solar's likely to break a record ~9GW. I expect every battery on the grid will be ready for peak @ 5pm. Still, there will likely be tight conditions. Buckle up.
#txlege #energytwitter 3/5
#txlege #energytwitter 3/5
@PUCTX meeting starting now. Agenda and livestream at link below. As usual, I'll tweet some updates throughout the meeting, particularly on items related to winter storm and/or market redesign.
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texasadmin.com/tx/puct/open_m…
#txlege #txenergy #energytwitter
texasadmin.com/tx/puct/open_m…
First agenda item they take up is #46034, the Southern Cross project to connect 2GW of generation from Texas to the Eastern Interconnect (near MS/AL border). This project is a long time in the making.
Cmsr Glotfelty notes that in the past commissioners didn't choose to move forward. He says "we ought to move forward to this." He filed a memo linked below.
interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/4630…
interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/4630…
Interesting that ERCOT CEO Brad Jones, when asked if he can guarantee there will be no outages, says something like: I promise we have done everything possible to ensure the lights will stay on.
Hmmm, not quite the same thing...
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Hmmm, not quite the same thing...
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@LWVTexas, hosting the ERCOT town hall asks about Jones' concerns with gas supply. He says he "is concerned" about weatherization and is specifically concerned about the 20-25% drop in gas supply on Jan. 2 during a recent cold snap.
ERCOT's Jones: "We don't get enough information about what's going on in the gas system... that lack of transparency is something we have to resolve." Wants to set up a gas desk in ERCOT ops room to advise about gas limitations. Not in place yet.
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#txlege #txenergy #energytwitter
A lot going on today/this week on storm response. A quick 🧵 on what to look for this week:
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#txlege #txenergy
Today on the House floor, #HB2000 by Huberty to create the State Utilities Reliability Fund, a loan/grant fund for weatherization of infrastructure, will likely come up. It was scheduled for last week but postponed. Huberty was arrested last Friday and was absent. Now he's back.
At 3CT, ERCOT and the PUCT will hold a Summer Preparedness Workshop. We could see very tight conditions and possibly outages this summer if extreme heat and drought occur.
ercot.com/calendar/2021/…
See this from @erinmdouglas23 @MitchellFerman
texastribune.org/2021/04/15/tex… #txlege
ercot.com/calendar/2021/…
See this from @erinmdouglas23 @MitchellFerman
texastribune.org/2021/04/15/tex… #txlege
Hey #energytwitter, if you want to tune in to the Senate and House hearings on the #TexasBlackout, links are in next tweet. I'll tweet on it throughout the day on this thread.
Please tweet using #txlege and #txenergy, esp. if you have relevent info that could help going forward
Please tweet using #txlege and #txenergy, esp. if you have relevent info that could help going forward
Joint hearing House Energy Resources and State Affairs house.texas.gov/video-audio/
Senate Business & Commerce
senate.texas.gov/av-live.php
Senate Business & Commerce
senate.texas.gov/av-live.php
1/ Tomorrow, the Texas House and Senate will hold hearings on the #TexasBlackout. One thing I'll be listening carefully for--and likely won't hear from many on the committees--is discussion of #climatechange.
It's beyond time we plan and adapt. A thread #txlege #txclimate
It's beyond time we plan and adapt. A thread #txlege #txclimate
2/ The CEO of ERCOT said last week to @TexasMonthly "We don’t have any climate specialists on staff."
texasmonthly.com/news/interview…
texasmonthly.com/news/interview…
3/ Why? As I said in the @HoustonChron “We never hear the words #climatechange spoken at ERCOT because of the politics. It’s a taboo subject. We’re using the past as a predictor of the future and we can’t do that...
houstonchronicle.com/business/energ…
houstonchronicle.com/business/energ…
Enjoyed talking to public radio listeners yesterday @TPRNews. A few highlights:
(1) Anyone who blames wind energy for this is wrong.
(2) The main problem was failure in gas, coal, and nuke plants and with gas supply.
tpr.org/environment/20… #txlege #txenergy 1/4
(1) Anyone who blames wind energy for this is wrong.
(2) The main problem was failure in gas, coal, and nuke plants and with gas supply.
tpr.org/environment/20… #txlege #txenergy 1/4
(3) Renewables generally, though not at all times, overperformed, including right now... #windenegy is a big reason power is back.
(4) #Gas, for now, should not be considerd reliable. It's not always available when most needed. About 1/3 of the gas plants are *still* out. 2/4
(4) #Gas, for now, should not be considerd reliable. It's not always available when most needed. About 1/3 of the gas plants are *still* out. 2/4
(5) Get water and power flowing to people again, and then let's start looking for solutions.
(6) Blaming accomplishes little but we need our state's leaders to accept responsibility. 3/4
(6) Blaming accomplishes little but we need our state's leaders to accept responsibility. 3/4
