Total solar eclipse: Track the Texas power grid? [Video]

HOUSTON — At the beginning of April, we sought to VERIFY if the Texas power grid would be affected by the long-anticipated Great American Eclipse. The answer was, yes.

After reaching out to ERCOT, NASA and Dr. Daniel Cohan, the associate professor at Rice University of Environmental Engineering, we learned that Texas solar farms in the path of the April 8 eclipse will see a substantial drop in production. That drop is expected to happen between 12:10 p.m. and 3:10 p.m., according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

“… We still have plenty of other sources that we can turn on and off as needed, especially natural gas power plants. So when it comes to mild weather like we have in the spring, there’s plenty of slack in …