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    <h1 class="headline ">Harvey contradicts Trump admin's warnings on wind and gas</h1>

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    <time datetime="2017-09-11 08:03:50 -0400">Published: Monday, September 11, 2017</time>
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        <p>Questioning the resilience of America's electric grid is in vogue under President Trump. But if Hurricane Harvey is any measure, the U.S. power sector can take a punch.</p>


	<p>The hurricane made landfall amid a fierce national debate over the future of the U.S. power grid.</p>


	<p>A wave of nuclear and coal plant retirements nationwide has prompted concern that America is becoming too reliant on power plants that burn natural gas and the network of pipelines that serve them. Coal interests have repeatedly pointed to 2014's polar vortex, saying a major weather event could compromise natural gas infrastructure.</p>


	<p>Gas interests, in particular, contest that argument, but their counterparts in the coal industry received a boost from a recent Department of Energy report that called on power planners to better value the assurances offered by coal units' on-site fuel storage during storms.</p>


	<p>But then Harvey hit, and Texas power plants largely shrugged it off. Natural gas was by far the largest power provider during the week of the storm, accounting for almost half of electricity generation, according to figures from the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas, the local grid operator. Coal contributed another third, while nuclear power and wind contributed 11 percent and 9 percent of ERCOT's power, respectively.</p>


	

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  <div class="ad_container" id="mobile_mediumStory_1060060249"></div></section><p>"ERCOT has had plenty of generation to meet total system demand and expects to have sufficient generation for the foreseeable future," the grid operator wrote in a preliminary report to Texas regulators.</p>


	<p>Some 7,500 megawatts of generation capacity remained offline as of last week, due to "rain or floodwaters affecting fuel supplies, outages of transmission facilities at the generator's point of interconnection, or the inability of plant personnel to reach the generating facility," ERCOT said.</p>


	<p>The grid operator did not provide a breakdown by fuel.</p>


	<p>ERCOT's ability to meet electricity needs partially reflects decreased power demand resulting from the storm. Nearly 300,000 people were without power near the height of the storm, according to the Department of Energy. It also reflects the current surplus of power generation in Texas, industry observers said.</p>


	<p>But the ability of Texas' power plants to weather Harvey also highlights what some experts say is the Trump administration's misplaced focus on coal and nuclear units. Downed power lines were a far greater problem than sputtering power plants, they said.</p>


	<p>"The DOE drove us down some rabbit holes in looking at aspects of resiliency," said Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University in Houston. "It's the power lines and really mundane stuff that makes the grid more resilient."</p>


	<p>He added, "That you need a massive pile of coal for a resilient grid, there is no truth to that."</p>


	<p>David Knox, a spokesman for NRG Energy Inc., said geographic reasons and fuel diversity ensured the resilience of Houston-based plants during the storm. NRG is a part owner of the South Texas Project, a nuclear plant that remained operating throughout the hurricane and its floods. The company's coal, gas and wind facilities continued running, he said.</p>


	<p>Indeed, wind was the only resource to see its generation grow last week, compared to the same period a year ago. In 2016, wind accounted for roughly 5 percent of ERCOT's power supply. This year, facilities outside the storm area in South and West Texas pushed that figure to 9 percent, ERCOT figures show.</p>


	<p>"We were able to meet all the demands placed on us by ERCOT," Knox said, noting that transmission was the main problem during Harvey.</p>


	<p>Still, lessons out of Texas only go so far. The United States maintains a series of regional grids. The resilience of one does not necessarily ensure the resilience of another. Texas has not witnessed the wave of coal plant closures seen in other regions. And while natural gas infrastructure is well-developed in the Lone Star State, it can be less so in other regions.</p>


	<p>Now comes a second test in Hurricane Irma. Florida is very dependent on natural gas to meet its power needs. Nuclear played a key role during Harvey, but two Florida nuclear plants were turned off Friday in advance of the new storm. Both facilities hug the coastline and were expected to be subjected to high winds. Up to 4.1 million households could be without power, Florida Power &amp; Light Co. officials said last week (<a href="https://www.eenews.net/energywire/2017/09/11/stories/1060060237"><em>Energwire</em></a>, Sept. 11).</p>


	<p>When the storm clouds clear, America will have a better sense of just how resilient its power grid really is.</p>
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