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Does a Winter Blackout Loom for Texas as ERCOT's Plan for ...

The cancellation of the plan, deemed crucial to preventing emergency conditions during extreme cold, comes after plant operators rejected ...

Failing Toward Success: The Mothballing of Petra Nova Carbon ...

When the world's first carbon capture facility on a coal-fired power plant came online in Texas in 2017, it was touted as a big step toward ...

Power plant mothballed, cutting grid's summer power capacity | AP ...

A Central Texas coal-fired electric generating plant is being shut down this summer, cutting the state's biggest electric power grid's reserve capacity for ...

The Texas Freeze: How the Texas Electric Grid Failed Us All: Part II

January 6-7, 2014, due to demand, Luminant's electric generators fail more than a dozen times in 12 hours. Of the approximately 19,500 MW of ...

Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project Gets a Second Chance at Failure

5 at the Parish plant, located near Richmond and owned by NRG Energy. Adrian Shelley, Texas director of Public Citizen, said: “Projects like ...

Industry Changes Coming Soon to Fannin County | | kten.com

FANNIN COUNTY, TX -- Some big changes are coming soon in Fannin County. A nearly 50-year-old power plant in Savoy is mothballing, ...

Testing Texas power - R Street Institute

More than 5,600 megawatts of fossil-fuel capacity will retire or mothball in the coming year, while 2,200 megawatts of natural gas, wind and ...

Trending Topics - Texas Regulators Save Customers Billions

Winter cold snaps and unusually hot summer temperatures pushed the system to the edge and required bringing some mothballed plants out of ...

Biomass Follies -- Austin, Texas Is The Latest City To Find It Isn't ...

The Nacogdoches Generating Facility in East Texas will likely be mothballed or torn down. How the city of Austin came to own an unused power ...

Power problems might be worse next year - MySA

Earlier this month ERCOT asked operators to bring two plants in Houston and two in North Texas out of mothballs through October to ensure grid ...

Luminant gets approval to mothball two coal-fired generating units in ...

Luminant gets approval to mothball two coal-fired generating units in Texas, US · Sign up for our weekly news round-up! · Partner Content ...

AEP to Mothball Seven Plants - Energy Intelligence

American Electric Power (AEP) said Tuesday it will begin taking steps to move seven Texas power plants to inactive, or "mothballed," status ...

Electric Grid in Texas Faces Multiple Challenges

Luminant, a giant power generation company, plans to take two units of its 1970s-era Monticello coal plant in Northeast Texas out of service in ...

31 994 Item Number: 85 Addendum StartPage: 0 - PUC Interchange

... power plants and energy ... plant and eight other Texas power plants last year for. $430 million. All but four of the other plants have been sold or mothballed.

How to Prevent Future Gaps in Texas' Power Grid

Generators in colder regions are compelled by federal or state rules to protect their plants from extreme weather. Texas plants can leave their ...

After White Stallion Power Plant Canceled, Coal Faces Dark Future ...

The company behind what would have been the last new coal power plant in Texas, called White Stallion, is no longer pursuing the project, ...

Coal plant retirements and high summer electricity demand lower ...

Coal plant retirements and high summer electricity demand lower Texas reserve margin ... mothballed generator became available, and a ...

ERCOT Cancels RFP for Additional Winter Capacity - RTO Insider

Talen Energy notified ERCOT in August that it was planning to indefinitely suspend operations at the other large plant on the list, its 292-MW ...

What is happening with Morro Bay Battery Storage project?

As Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant begins shutting down in the next four years, another major energy facility could potentially be coming ...

Review of February 2021 Extreme Cold Weather Event – ERCOT ...

Requested TCEQ/DOE enforcement discretion for power plant emissions during anticipated event. • Supported Railroad Commission of Texas review of ...