Dive Summary:
- Texas’ LS Power has put its new 925-megawatt (MW) coal-fired plant online just in time to meet aggressive summer demand and prevent rolling outages.
- Meanwhile, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is closely monitoring electricity supply which has been reduced to its lowest level in a decade due to hotter-than-normal weather.
- NRG Energy, the second largest power generator in Texas, is also on task and will launch a 75-MW "peaker" near Houston in July. NRG and Dallas-based Luminant, the state's largest power company, have already restarted some older power plants for the summer, totaling more than 1,200MW.
From the article:
... "A peaker plant is able to start in minutes to meet high demand. The Parish peaker will be available this summer and in 2014. After 2014, the unit is expected to support operation of a post-combustion carbon capture system, which is in development at the Parish site." ...
