The organization that manages the Texas electric grid is no longer warning utility customers it may soon enter "emergency conditions." The Electric Reliability Council of Texas issued the alert last night due to a combination of high generator outages and higher-than-forecasted demand caused by weather in Texas. ERCOT says it didn't expect outages, but declaring an emergency would allow the agency to access additional resources.
Just two months ago, millions of Texans spent days without electricity during a winter storm. Since then several ERCOT board members have resigned and the president and CEO was fired. The organization manages the flow of electric power to more than 26 million Texas customers, covering 90% of the state's electric needs.
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