Arctic Winter In Texas Prompts Rotating Power Outages

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) called early on Monday for rotating outages across the state as extreme winter weather forced wind power generating units offline, while electricity demand set a new winter peak record. ERCOT set a new winter peak demand record on Sunday evening, reaching 69,150 MW between 6 p.

m. and 7 p.m. This is more than 3,200 MW higher than the previous winter peak set back in January 2018, ERCOT said. At the same time, the extreme winter weather and ice storms cut offline almost half of the wind power capacity…