ERCOT says demand could hit a peak of just under 72,000 megawatts this week, which would set a winter record.
“Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. that’s when we’re expected to have our highest load on the system,” Jones said.
Gas suppliers are not required to report these decisions, which Jones hopes through legislation will change in the future.“I have talked about in the past for the need to create what we call a gas desk — this is something that I know exists in the northeast.. New England and New York,” he said. “It’s something we don’t have in Texas. At present we’re not given the information, but we’re working with the Texas Energy Reliability Council to make sure that we can begin to get that information.
“Really the trees are the problem,” Oncor meteorologist Jen Myers said. “If there’s just a 10th of an inch of ice on a tree it can weigh down those branches.”
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