Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Oncor: Conservation Vital To Averting More Problems

Oncor, the electric transmission and distribution company serving most of North Texas, is asking its customers to conserve energy in the next few days in order to help prevent more power problems for the Texas grid.

Since before 6 a.m. Wednesday morning, Oncor was one of multiple electricity transmission and distribution companies that initiated rotating, planned outages in an effort to reduce demand as required by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Extreme winter weather caused increased electricity demand and several power plants to go offline making demand for electricity exceed supply.

“There is a delicate balance between power supply and demand that, if compromised, can cause massive, uncontrolled blackouts that could take days to restore,” Oncor Chief Operating Officer Charles Jenkins said. “The rotating outages ERCOT asked utilities to initiate today were necessary to prevent a catastrophic event. We will continue to work with ERCOT to restore this critical supply/demand balance.”

You can find more of the story here.

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