Public Utility Commission Grills ERCOT Over Its Call For Texans To Conserve Energy This Week

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

June 18, 2021

Key ERCOT leaders gave new details to the Public Utility Commission of Texas about what led the council to ask Texans to conserve energy this week, during a meeting Thursday, June 17.

Outages at multiple power plants on Sunday, June 13, forced ERCOT to call on the available generators in the state.

“We are more conservatively operating the system at this point, by making sure that we have more reserves online, all the time,” said Woody Rickerson, ERCOT’s vice president of grid planning and operations.

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