{"id":11910,"date":"2023-10-10T12:46:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T12:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11910"},"modified":"2023-10-10T12:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T12:46:33","slug":"the-us-power-grid-quietly-survived-its-most-brutal-summer-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11910","title":{"rendered":"The US power grid quietly survived its most brutal summer yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Part of the reason that Texas sometimes struggles to make enough electricity is that it has a freewheeling power market with fewer interventions from regulators than those in other states. The priority is to sell electricity in real time at the lowest possible cost, with little backup margin, although that\u2019s starting to change. Spurred by the 2021 blackout in Texas from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/2\/16\/22284140\/texas-blackout-outage-winter-storm-uri-ercot-power-grid-cold-snow-austin-houston-dallas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Winter Storm Uri<\/a>&nbsp;that cut off power to 4 million customers and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/energy-environment\/2022-02-15\/one-year-later-many-question-the-official-number-of-deaths-linked-to-the-texas-blackout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killed at least 246 people<\/a>, ERCOT implemented rules to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/26\/us\/texas-energy-grid-ercot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">encourage more reserve power on its grid<\/a>.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/23893057\/power-electricity-grid-heat-wave-record-blackout-outage-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/23893057\/power-electricity-grid-heat-wave-record-blackout-outage-climate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Part of the reason that Texas sometimes struggles to make enough electricity is that it has a freewheeling power market with fewer interventions from regulators than those in other states. The priority is to sell electricity in real time at the lowest possible cost, with little backup margin, although that\u2019s starting to change. Spurred by the 2021 blackout in Texas from Winter Storm Uri that cut off power to 4 million customers and killed at least 246 people, ERCOT implemented rules to encourage more reserve power on its grid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/23893057\/power-electricity-grid-heat-wave-record-blackout-outage-climate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[913,694,1352,1887,21],"class_list":["post-11910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-electricity","tag-power","tag-power-grid","tag-power-plants","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11911,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions\/11911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}