Houston Chronicle: It’s going to be a hot summer. How can Texas electricity keep up?
Feb 1, 2019 | News Roundup
Jan. 31 — First, the bad news. As L.M. Sixel reported in the Houston Chronicle earlier this month, the buffer between supply and demand on the hottest afternoons this summer is expected to be a record-low 7.4 percent. That’s just over half the buffer that grid operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) tries to maintain.