Winter Storm Grayson: Where's The Natural Gas? What Happened To Hydroelectricity -- January 5, 2018

A graphic from yesterday:

The graphic from early this morning:

This is what jumps off the chart:

• spot price surges to almost $500/MWh
• what happened to natural gas? normally natural gas use surges when demand spikes
• one nuclear plant remains off-line
• what happened to hydro? hydro spiked to "2k" in the chart yesterday when electricity demand surges; today; hydro drops completely to zero before recovering a big
• coal remains maxed out
• later, 9:26 a.m. -- not seen on the this graphic -- renewables falling off just as demand increases