Rotating outages still in progress -- Conservation Critical

[Muddskipper]

Mid-morning Update:

During the early morning hours, the ERCOT grid began experiencing numerous forced outages of generation due to the cold weather. As of 9 am, more than 7,000 MW of capacity was still out of service or not producing at its expected level.

Rotating outages were implemented around 5:30 a.m. this morning to shed 4000 MW of load. The rotating outages are continuing as this time, although the amount has been reduced to about 3000 MW.


Further updates will be provided when additional information is available.

[Robalo]

it would have been nice had this planned outage had forewarning-my father is on oxygen generaotor and my 86 y.o. mother had no idea how to hook up a regulator on the emergency Oxygen. Thank goodness my brother immediately checked on them. GD news and centerpoit and ERCOT should have announced this sheet last farging nite!!

[Muddskipper]

They did not know that some of the generation was going to be shut down.

Also there is private generation that can kick on, but could not.

This was not planned