{"id":2740,"date":"2022-05-25T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2022-05-25T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:02:25","slug":"six-texas-power-plants-go-offline-due-to-excessive-power-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2022\/05\/25\/six-texas-power-plants-go-offline-due-to-excessive-power-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Texas Power Plants Go Offline Due to Excessive Power Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ercot.com\/news\/release?id=8b772e9e-51d0-4c3c-e653-1e5079f28e89\">Electric Reliability Council of Texas<\/a> reported that 6 power plants went offline Friday the 13th resulting in the loss of about 2,900 megawatts of electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith unseasonably hot weather driving record demand across&nbsp;Texas,&nbsp;ERCOT&nbsp;continues to work closely with the power industry to make sure Texans have the power they need,\u201d&nbsp;ERCOT&nbsp;said in a news release on&nbsp;May 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ERCOT is asking Texans to set their thermostats to 78 degrees or above and avoid the usage of large appliances such as dishwashers, washers and dryers during peak hours&nbsp;between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.&nbsp;through the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Texas power grids struggling just to keep up with power demand due to excessive heat and calls for energy from A\/C systems does one think the grid could handle the extra strain of Electric cars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric Reliability Council of Texas reported that 6 power plants went offline Friday the 13th resulting in the loss of about 2,900 megawatts of electricity. \u201cWith unseasonably hot weather driving record demand across&nbsp;Texas,&nbsp;ERCOT&nbsp;continues to work closely with the power industry to make sure Texans have the power they need,\u201d&nbsp;ERCOT&nbsp;said in a news release on&nbsp;May 13. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3122,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-finance","8":"category-lifestyle"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}