Most of Texas to see near-normal summer temps, but energy emergencies likely: ERCOT

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Most of Texas likely will experience near-normaltemperatures this summer, but the tight supply situation is expectedto require the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to implement multipleEnergy Emergency Alerts, ERCOT’s board of directors learned Tuesday.EEAs are declared when reserve generation capacity falls below2.5 GW, which enables ERCOT to deploy 2GW to 3GW of additionalresources, including demand response, behind-the-meter generation,switchable generation and resources across DC ties from adjacent gridoperators. When reserves dip below 2 GW, the wholesale price hits thesystemwide offer cap of $9,000/MWh.