Page 12 - பேட் மரம் News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
In wake of Texas power crisis, US Senate examines threats to grid resilience
spglobal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spglobal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After Texas blackouts, Senate probes need to prepare grid for extreme weather
dallasnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dallasnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Lessons from Texas: Co-ordinate and Relax Rules
Mar 4, 2021 3:05:pm
Summary
by: William Powell/Dale Lunan
Posted in:
Lessons from Texas: Co-ordinate and Relax Rules
Environmental restrictions on liquid fuel consumption and feeble incentives to draw investment in newbuild capacity were among the causes of the mid-February power crisis in Texas, a CERAWeek by IHS Markit panel agreed at a March 4 session. In a state with a growing amount of renewable energy, power prices were not high enough to justify the additional cost of catering for extreme events.
As a result, prolonged power shortages led to deaths by hypothermia even inside homes, according to press reports, while prices rocketed. But the situation would have been manageable if there were legal minimum supply standards, the panellists said.
USEA Press Briefing on The Lessons of Texas on Feb. 26
The first priority is to find out what happened, generator by generator, system by system and fuel by fuel.” Llewellyn King Executive Producer and Host, White House Chronicle WASHINGTON, DC, USA, February 25, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ The Texas deep freeze was close to the sum of all fears for electric and gas utilities. If it could go wrong, it did go wrong, and Texans suffered. It has been a shot heard around the world. Clearly Texas must rethink, rebuild, and reprioritize. Everything in the state is on the table, from its electric isolation to whether it should be under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) umbrella with new interconnections to the national grid.
The following is a contributed article by Paul Griffin, executive director of Energy Fairness.
As extreme winter weather gripped much of Texas and millions of customers were left without power because of blackouts, national conversations took a familiar and predictable turn down partisan lines. Opponents of renewable energy pointed the finger at the state’s robust wind energy, as roughly half the state’s wind capacity was knocked offline. Others cast the blame on traditional thermal sources, as 30 GW of generation from nuclear, coal and natural gas were unavailable for dispatch.
In the fog of war or winter as it were we fear many observers may have missed the real point. It wasn’t an electricity source that failed customers in Texas’ mostly deregulated marketplace. It was an electricity system. That’s because while regulated electricity markets are designed to serve customers, deregulated electricity markets are made to serve power providers.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.