Texas power grid operator CEO talks summer weather readiness [Video]

KVUE’s Jenni Lee sat down with ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas to discuss what’s being done to ensure grid reliability. 

Last summer, the state grid operator set 10 new all-time peak demand records, with the highest in August at more than 85,000 megawatts. Since then, Vegas said ERCOT has focused on more time for maintenance outages, clear communications and an increase of supply resources that put the state grid operator in a better position to handle increased demand. 

“Over 9,000 megawatts of new power supply resources have connected since last summer. And so, what that looks like [is] we’ve got over 5000 megawatts of solar, new solar that’s come on the grid. That’s going to be very helpful for the summer peaks. We’ve got over 1,000 megawatts of new wind and about 3,000 megawatts of dispatchable, which includes …