The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has asked Houston residents and businesses to conserve electricity due to continued high temperatures, high demand, low wind and declining solar power generation Wednesday evening.
has asked Houston residents and businesses to conserve electricity due to continued high temperatures, high demand, low wind and declining solar power generation Wednesday evening.“CenterPoint Energy does not generate electricity itself, so any shortage of electric power capacity from the electric grid is not something that the company controls,” a news release said.
ERCOT said the conservation appeal does not indicate that the grid is experiencing emergency conditions at this time.Raise your thermostat by a degree or two, if safe to do so.Turn off and unplug non-essential lights and appliances.“If conditions worsen, ERCOT may issue a directive to curtail power delivered to customers, which requires transmission and distribution utilities like CenterPoint Energy to implement controlled outages due to power generation shortfall,” the release said.
Houstonians are also encouraged to prepare now and have a backup plan in place, especially those who rely on electricity for life-sustaining equipment.
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