Study theme
Texas provides a major cold weather resilience and grid isolation case study. It contrasts with European interconnection events by highlighting fuel security, weatherisation, reserve adequacy, market structure and limited emergency import capability.
Sources
2021 Texas Power Crisis, Winter Storm Uri
FERC, NERC and Regional Entity Staff Report on the February 2021 Cold Weather Outages in Texas and the South Central United States.
https://www.ferc.gov/media/february-2021-cold-weather-outages-texas-and-south-central-united-states-ferc-nerc-and2011 Southwest Cold Weather Event
FERC and NERC Report on Outages and Curtailments During the Southwest Cold Weather Event of February 1 to 5 2011.
https://www.ferc.gov/media/report-outages-and-curtailments-during-southwest-cold-weather-event-february-1-5-2011Open winterisation study
Open access arXiv study on winterisation economics and weather risk in the Texas power system.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05148Open outage impact study
Open access arXiv study on community scale impacts of the 2021 Texas winter storm and managed power outage.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06046