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ERCOT is not "the power company". They're the marketplace where many power companies exchange. And they probably do know a bit of what happened but aren't going
by vel0city 3y ago
ERCOT is not "the power company". They're the marketplace where many power companies exchange. And they probably do know a bit of what happened but aren't going to share preliminary information until deeper analysis is complete.
- dragonwriter 3y agoThe power marketplace company should actually have better information on questions like “did a powerplant selling into the market go offline” than anyone except the plant operator, and should have more information about the impact than anyone.
- vel0city 3y agoAnd we don't know if they do or don't have that information, they haven't said either way. So its a bit early to complain about them not knowing something when we don't know if they know or not. If they truly don't know, then that's a problem. If they do know but are waiting to release information until they know all the facts, that's probably fine.
- gcr 3y agoThat’s a good point. On a re-read, the article does mention that the speculation of power plant failure is coming from outsiders on Twitter, so we don’t know whether the observability is there or not
- bombcar 3y agoIt depends on how they're joined to the "grid" - if a company running multiple plants is providing 10 GW and later is providing 9900 MW did a plant go offline? Did clouds obscure solar? Did the wind die down?
- usefulcat 3y agoERCOT already has information about location-specific supply and demand: https://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/contours/rtmLmp.html https://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/contours/rtmLmp.html