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Eventful Week for Texas Power Market: Nuke shutdown, spiking prices and a new record for energy use

Human error appears to have caused a partial shutdown on Friday of the South Texas Project, one of the state’s two nuclear plants. It’s been an eventful few days for the Texas power grid. Since last week, prices have spiked in the wholesale electricity market, one of the units of a major nuclear plant tripped off due to “human error,”  and … Continue reading

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