E Ohler
@ohler.bsky.social
All the exceptionally normal things and wiffle ball.
On Saturday, batteries set a new record in ERCOT, supplying 9% of power on an evening w/ high thermal outages & low wind. Prices spiked to near the max for 5 minutes, 4,300 megawatts of storage surged onto the grid (and demand went down ~2,000 MW) & things went back to normal. (h/t @gridstatus.io
If you have the chance to tell your friend that Henry Kissinger has died just before that friend tells you that he’s on mushrooms, I can say from experience that you should take it.