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by tootallgavin 1075 days ago
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/fuelmix

weird. Currently, natural gas is 62.4% of the fuel mix

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It’s normal, the sun goes down quite regularly.
But if you look at previous day's graphs, you see that solar tops out at 20%, whereas natural gas never drops below 50%.
Natural gas generation never drops below ~40% period in this state, the novelty here is its losses from heat were covered to the tune of 35% of the mix last Tuesday.

PV generation maxes out at ~12GW, the bulk of our renewable energy comes from wind but it isn’t blowing this week ergo outsized natgas generation before the sun is up.

Amazing - as a Brit I get a security incident blocked warning, which is presumably some sort of halfassed GDPR worry.