Austin Energy biomass power plant remained offline during outages
Austin Energy biomass power plant remained offline during outages
Before the winter storm hit Austin and cut power to thousands, Austin Energy s biomass power facility in East Texas was already offline.
AUSTIN, Texas - Long before the winter storm hit Austin and cut electrical power to thousands of customers, Austin Energy s multi-million dollar biomass power facility in East Texas was already offline.
Why it was never powered up, came up Friday during the power crisis hearings at the Texas Capitol. Austin Energy general manager Jacqueline Sargent testified about why the site was not in play.
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The governor’s televised speech came hours after overseers of the state’s electricity grid heard a harrowing account of how the system avoided an even worse disaster. For those of you still hurting, I want you to know that the state is using every resource to fix this problem, Gov. Greg Abbott said of Texans suffering from power and water outages as a result of last week s bitter cold weather. In photo, residents of Villas Del Solamar Apartments who d been without water for a week waited to fill buckets Monday at a fire hydrant on Park Lane in Dallas.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
ERCOT defends power outages amid Texas winter storm, says system was near collapse
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 2/25/2021 Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Feb. 24 Representatives from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas shed some light Wednesday on why millions were left in the dark last week.
As a winter storm covered much of the state, ERCOT the nonprofit that manages the state s power grid ordered controlled outages to prevent a statewide blackout.
But what were supposed to be rolling outages spanned hours and days for some Texans.
In the board s first meeting since the outages, ERCOT CEO Bill Magness began his presentation by acknowledging the devastation, including loss of life.
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