ERCOT expects to have sufficient resources this fall and winter: reports

摘要

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ latest resource adequacy assements for fall and winter show growing excesses of resources over peakloads under various scenarios, but natural gas prices may be a bigger factor in power prices during those period, an analyst said Sept. 3. ERCOT on Sept. 3 released its final Fall 2020 Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy and its preliminary Winter 2020-21 SARA and declared that the grid operator expected to have “sufficient generation” for both seasons. ERCOT’s final fall peak power demand forecast, at 60,966 MW, is unchanged from its preliminary forecast issued in May.