Report on extreme weather preparedness: Best practices
Quanta Technology's objectives in performing this analysis were to perform a review of the emergency operations plans submitted by generating entities in Texas, identify best practices for generating entities regarding weatherization practices and to analyze the robustness of the Texas grid to deliver power under projected peak season conditions. Further, the analysis a identify areas within Texas as priority areas to ensure generating entities have developed and implemented highly effective and complete EOPs.
This report to the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) supplements the efforts to address the recommendations resulting from the analysis ofthe February 2011 events. These actions fall in the broad categories of planning and reserves, coordination with generator owners and operators, winterization, communications, and load shedding. Some of the actions pertinent to the content of this report include:
- ERCOT-hosted workshops on generator weatherization and load shedding;
- TRE survey oftransmission and generator owners regarding winter preparedness and subsequent webinar;
- ERCOT winter assessment survey;
- PUCT workshop on Resource Adequacy and Shortage Pricing;
- Modifying rules for regulation service, vastly increasing resource outage approval timeframes, reinforcing; authority to secure additional responsive reserves as needed.