Power Down: ERCOT Warns of Energy Shortfall

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hurcott has released a worst case scenario where Texas energy
demand could outpace supply as early as summer twenty twenty six.
U of H Energy fellow Ed Hers says the state
not only needs new power plants, but must tend to
its older ones.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Coal fired power plants are about fifty five years in
age now. The natural gas power plants average more than
thirty years in age, So we're finding ourselves running short
on supply when plan operators take some of them offline
to perform maintenance.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
And the earliest any new power plant would be ready
is five or six years. In the meantime, the state
is ramping up battery supply to store up more existing power.
Corey Jolson News Radio seven forty KTRH