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The February 2021 cold weather outages in Texas and the South Central United States

Description: This report1 describes the severe cold weather event occurring between February 8 and 20, 2021 and how it impacted the reliability of the bulk electric system2 (“BES” or colloquially known as the grid) in Texas and the South Central United States (hereafter known as “the Event”). During the Event, extreme cold temperatures and freezing precipitation led 1,045 individual BES generating units, (with a combined 192,818 MW of nameplate capacity) in Texas and the South Central United States to exper… more
Date: November 2021
Creator: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Timeline and Events of the February 2021 Texas Electric Grid Blackouts

Description: This report recounts the factors contributing to the disruptions in electricity and natural gas service in Texas during Winter Storm Uri, with a particular focus on the outages in electrical service in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) power region during the period from February 15-18, 2021. In pursuing this report’s objective, the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin assembled a team of faculty and researchers to identify and review credible sources of data in… more
Date: July 2021
Creator: University of Texas at Austin
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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