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>Or a regulation that says all plants must be winterized to a certain degree thus the cost of electricity will just be higher for everyone to pay for mitigation
by JaimeThompson 5y ago
>Or a regulation that says all plants must be winterized to a certain degree thus the cost of electricity will just be higher for everyone to pay for mitigation of long tail risk
The Southwest Power Pool has such regulations which is why they didn't have the same level of issues in the parts of Texas they serve.
- mhb 5y agoBut they would have similar issues in some more extreme situation. Why is it obvious that the big storm that SPP has anticipated and expended resources on is the right one? Or will there be a report like this when that storm arrives and SPP also has issues?
- ocschwar 5y agoNot SPP. FERC. Winterization is required for any gear that's on an AC grid that crosses state lines. SPP is on the Eastern Interconnection. So all the players in SPP are required to winterize. ERCOT is entirely inside Texas, so they had a choice. And they chose.... poorly.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoThe SPP has taken steps to mitigate such risks. See their coverage area and other detail here https://spp.org/ https://spp.org/
- 7thaccount 5y agoThere is a winter weather event report that covers what happened in granular detail and lists all the initiatives in progress to lower the chances of something similar happening again.