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Austin Didn’t Use Its $1B Biomass Power Plant During Winter Crisis
« on: February 19, 2021, 11:30:07 pm »
Texas Scorecard by Jacob Asmussen February 19, 2021

“Maybe it was not possible given the short emergency time, but it would seem to me that this (power plant) should be on call in emergencies like this.”

 If there was ever a good time to turn on a power plant, this week would’ve been it.

As millions of Texans suffered this week during historic winter storms and catastrophic power outages, Austin officials left a $1 billion power plant completely offline.

According to local news KXAN, Austin’s East Texas biomass power plant—a facility that burns wood waste to generate more than 100 megawatts of power—was not turned on a single time over the past week.

It could have powered more than 20,000 homes.

An Austin Energy spokesman said the plant was turned off because they switched the facility last year to only seasonal use.

“On May 19, 2020, Austin Energy notified ERCOT [the state government’s now highly disdained power grid management agency] that the utility will suspend year-round operations at the Nacogdoches Biomass Power Plant and shift instead to seasonal, summer operations running from May 15 to October 15,” Austin Energy said in an email Friday morning.

“Seasonal operation will allow Austin Energy to use the biomass plant more efficiently—it will simplify operational planning,” they added.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/local/austin-didnt-use-its-1b-biomass-power-plant-during-winter-crisis/
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Re: Austin Didn’t Use Its $1B Biomass Power Plant During Winter Crisis
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2021, 04:02:26 pm »
Maybe somebody sent the starter rope off to the recycler? ****drummer

Or the control SW runs on Windows 98 or Mac System 9 and no one remembers how to use it? ****drummer
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Re: Austin Didn’t Use Its $1B Biomass Power Plant During Winter Crisis
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2021, 05:58:37 pm »
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“On May 19, 2020, Austin Energy notified ERCOT [the state government’s now highly disdained power grid management agency] that the utility will suspend year-round operations at the Nacogdoches Biomass Power Plant and shift instead to seasonal, summer operations running from May 15 to October 15,” Austin Energy said in an email Friday morning.

A public energy company in Austin controls the operation of a power plant in Nacagdoches? 
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Re: Austin Didn’t Use Its $1B Biomass Power Plant During Winter Crisis
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2021, 08:37:00 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on February 20, 2021, 05:58:37 pm
A public energy company in Austin controls the operation of a power plant in Nacagdoches?

Austin Energy to Acquire Nacogdoches Biomass Facility
https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/biomass/austin-energy-to-acquire-nacogdoches-biomass-facility-20190422
22 April 2019

Austin Energy of Austin, Texas, has reached an agreement with Southern Power to acquire the Nacogdoches Generating Facility, a wood waste biomass-fueled power plant located near Sacul in Nacogdoches County, Texas, for $460 million....

...The plant commenced commercial operation in 2012 and currently provides 100 MW of renewable power to Austin Energy under a 20-year power purchase agreement. The transaction, which is expected to close in mid-2019, will allow Austin Energy to avoid approximately $275 million in additional costs over the remaining term of the agreement....
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