{"id":11791,"date":"2012-05-31T09:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2012-05-31T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:51:09","slug":"texas-power-slim-reserves-getting-slimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/31\/texas-power-slim-reserves-getting-slimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Power: Slim Reserves Getting Slimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"NERC website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nerc.com\/\">North American Electric Reliability Corporation<\/a> released its latest &#8220;Summer Reliability Assessment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It says while most of the nation has adequate reserves of electric power to make it through the summer, Texas may not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the expected reserve margin in the ERCOT Region for the 2012 summer season (below the\u00a0minimum Reference Margin Level), unavailability of one or more large thermal generators due to the\u00a0compliance requirements of the CSAPR or, in fact, for any reason (such as an extended maintenance\u00a0outage), would increase the risk of emergency conditions during 2012 summer peak load hours, and\u00a0could necessitate rotating outages in the event of extreme heat or significant other generation unit\u00a0outages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read full report <a title=\"NERC Summer report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nerc.com\/files\/2012SRA.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North American Electric Reliability Corporation released its latest &#8220;Summer Reliability Assessment&#8221;. It says while most of the nation has adequate reserves of electric power to make it through the summer, Texas may not. &#8220;Given the expected reserve margin in the ERCOT Region for the 2012 summer season (below the\u00a0minimum Reference Margin Level), unavailability of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[14],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11794,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions\/11794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}