Jason Fochtman/Staff photographer A day after ERCOT asked the U.S.
Department of Energy for an emergency order allowing its generators to bypass emissions standards to stave off potential outages, Texas' electric grid met demand with ease on Saturday.
By 4 p.m. ERCOT officials said there was 27,876 more megawatts committed by generators than the forecasted demand. ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas wrote to the agency that there were about 11,000 megawatts of outages among thermal generators that use coal and natural gas as fuel, 4,000 megawatts among wind generators and 1,700 megawatts of solar units that were"outaged or derated" due to the freezing weather. One megawatt is
Vegas also wrote ERCOT had directed natural gas generators with back-up fuel on site to begin using that supply due to"natural gas delivery limitations." In approving the ERCOT request Friday evening, the DOE said it would require ERCOT to provide"detailed reporting" and the"completion of a post incident Special Environmental Analysis." In the order, Kathleen Hogan, principal deputy undersecretary for infrastructure at the department, wrote that despite environmental concerns, the loss of power within ERCOT would be more dangerous.
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