Gov. Greg Abbott touts Texas power grid’s readiness heading into fall, election season

Greg Abbott

said Tuesday that the Texas power grid is prepared for the fall months and referenced a new seasonal forecast by the state’s grid operator, which typically does not draw much attention to its fall and spring grid assessments because of the more mild temperatures during those seasons. Tuesday’s new forecast by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas showed that there should be plenty of power supply to meet demand in October and November. It also showed that many Texas power plants are scheduled to be offline this fall for maintenance work. Texas power plants usually plan to go down in the fall and spring for repairs ahead of the more extreme temperatures in winter and summer, when Texans crank up their heat and air conditioning and raise demand for power.Feb.

ERCOT for at least a decade announced its seasonal forecasts, but did not do so on Tuesday. The grid operator stopped announcing the reports after the 2021 winter storm. A spokesperson for the grid operator, which posted the report to its website midday without notifying the public or power industry stakeholders, said there were no plans to discuss the latest forecast and referred questions about it to the Public Utility Commission, which oversees ERCOT.

“The State of Texas continues to monitor the reliability of our electric grid, and I thank ERCOT and PUC for their hard work to implement bipartisan reforms we passed last year and for their proactive leadership to ensure our grid is stronger than ever before,” Abbott said in the release.

DBChirpy LMFAO

Prerty convenient, after a summer of silence on the subject, to tout the readiness of the power grid once temps start falling.

Too little done for Texas. Vote him out

My forecast is that there's a good chance of us voting him out

Let's see... 'Abbott will take a chance on failure because hes so good at asking for forgiveness' BetoForGovernor VoteBlueIn2022 Congress StandWithUvalde auditTexas AbbottFailedTexas abbottwithdrawal BlueWave2022

At this point how does anyone believe Greg? About anything.

The fall? Yea, its always good during the fall, or at least it used to be...I am more worried about winter!

Vote Beto!

Well, for the money being charged on our bills....something better be fixed.

Lol… “the lights won’t go out this FALL” when Texas temps are generally at their most moderate, isn’t really a “message of success”.

🤣😅😂🤣😂😁😆🤣🤣🤣

And the mostly 'hand picked' ERCOT CEO by Abbott?

If Texans still vote for Abbott after what he's done to you over the years, then you deserve every bit of what you get.

'We crossed our fingers and took million dollar checks and nothing bad happened! I'm a genius!'

Abbott is not good for Texas.

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