{"id":2025013,"date":"2023-09-07T18:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T22:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-grid-faces-test-friday-after-residents-asked-to-conserve-energy\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T22:22:24","slug":"texas-grid-faces-test-friday-after-residents-asked-to-conserve-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-grid-faces-test-friday-after-residents-asked-to-conserve-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas grid tested Friday after energy conservation request to residents."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-grid-faces-test-friday-after-residents-asked-to-conserve-energy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2025013&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Six Texas Cities Among the Hottest in the Nation, Raising Concerns for Energy Grid<\/h2>\n<p>Six of Texas&#8217;s cities made up the top 10 hottest cities on \u200dThursday, and it&#8217;s \u200dexpected to stay \u200bthat way heading into Friday \u2014\u2064 igniting fears that severe temperatures could put further stress on the state&#8217;s energy grid, a day after Texas&#8217;s grid operator issued an energy emergency for\u200c the first time this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Electric\u200b Reliability Council\u2063 of Texas, the state&#8217;s grid \u2063operator, issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-grid-operator-urges-weekend-conservation-as-state-continues-to-bake\/\" title=\"Texas grid operator urges conservation as state continues to swelter.\">conservation notice<\/a> on Thursday, asking consumers to conserve electricity use between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. local\u200d time. ERCOT cited &#8220;high temperatures, high demand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/summer-power-blackouts-may-be-on-the-horizon\/\" title=\"Summer Power Blackouts May Be on the Horizon\">low wind<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-grid-faces-test-friday-after-residents-asked-to-conserve-energy\/\" title=\"Texas grid tested Friday after energy conservation request to residents.\">declining low solar power generation<\/a>&#8221; as the \u2062reason for the conservation\u200b appeal. But it&#8217;s only expected to get hotter, with \u2062some cities \u2063reaching highs of 109 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<h3>Previous Energy \u200dEmergency and Potential for Another Alert<\/h3>\n<p>On Wednesday, the operator issued an energy \u200demergency that lasted approximately \u200c76 minutes, announcing that it would be going into its second level of energy emergency operations.\u2063 This is when operating reserves drop below 1,750 megawatts, and ERCOT \u2063uses \u200cpower from large industrial customers \u2014 who\u2063 are contractually obligated to have their electricity turned off \u2062during an emergency \u2014 along with tapping into other \u200dresources. ERCOT moved from its emergency level 2 operations \u200cto level 1 later in the evening, avoiding the implementation of rotating \u200dpower outages.<\/p>\n<p>However, scorching temperatures heading into\u200c the weekend increase the\u2062 possibility of the state issuing another emergency alert. Out of the 10 cities\u2063 that\u200c have the hottest temperatures on Thursday, six of them are in Texas \u2014 including Corpus Christi, Houston, Austin,\u2064 Fort Worth, \u2064Dallas, and \u200dArlington, according\u2062 to an analysis by the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>The latest conservation notice by ERCOT on Thursday is the 11th this year, with record-breaking temperatures\u200d contributing to the tightening of grid supply. The state\u200b is still navigating a triple-digit heat \u2062wave that has made headlines throughout the summer months \u2014 and temperatures are only expected to get\u200c mildly better through the\u200b weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Texas cities dominated the top 10 hottest cities on Thursday, with no relief in sight for Friday. This raises concerns about the state&#8217;s energy grid, already under strain after an energy emergency was declared by Texas&#8217;s grid operator. Severe temperatures continue to pose a threat to the grid this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2025014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}