The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates Texas' electricity grid, came perilously close to a complete system blackout in ***. The Texas power crisis saw power generation fall by **** percent in the night between * and *. Over *** power generators were forced offline due to winter storm Uri and the resulting drop in temperatures, which caused power plant equipment and water for thermal power generation to freeze. The predicted winter peak as of **** was * megawatts. ERCOT's operating system ran below a frequency of **** hertz for roughly **** minutes, **** minutes short of risking a complete system blackout.
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