Hot In Oklahoma; Hot In Texas -- July 9, 2022

Medford, OK: ONEOK gas plant fire. Sent to me by a reader. Thank you. 

Disclaimer: there may be typographical and content errors below. I get easily confused with "k," "m," and "MW." 

ERCOT: current temperature in DFW, north Texas -- 104°F

• it looks like electricity demand has peaked
• it appears the grid held with electricity to spare
• operating reserves: 3,029 MW
• it looks like demand peaked at 77,227 or thereabouts
• committed capacity at same time: 78,886 or thereabouts
• if folks recall, the forecast was for wind to "fail us."
• if so, solar "saved us." LOL.
• what a way to run an electricity grid: on hope. LOL.
  

For comparison purposes, total renewable energy provided today in ISO-NE was slightly more than 1K MW compared to ERCOT's 12K MW.

Meanwhile, ISO-NY, total load today maxed out at about 22K MW. About 1.5% of that was wind = 0.33K MW. 

Think of all the offshore wind turbines the Biden administration envisions off shore Rhode Island and Long Island. All those big, beautiful wind turbines.