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In System Failure - Texas Blackout of 2021, you'll learn ...
- What happened to the Texas natural gas and electric systems during the February 2021 winter storm
- The electric utility structure in Texas and the system conditions, planning, and preparation for winter events
- How an electric system responds to extreme events
- Lessons learned from this event that are pertinent to not only Texas but the entire U.S. electric system.
Overview
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Credit: 5 PDH
Length: 87 pages
For almost eleven days in February of 2021, the entire state of Texas was at risk of losing electric power and natural gas to millions of customers.
This event was caused by exceptional long-lasting and widespread cold weather as well as a lack of preparation for an extreme cold weather event.
This course explains what happened to the Texas natural gas and electric systems during this winter storm and the resulting lessons learned that may help minimize the impacts of future events.
The course has five chapters:- Chapter One describes the system conditions, planning, and preparation for winter events.
- Chapter Two describes the status of the electric and gas facilities leading up to the event.
- Chapter Three is a timeline of activities and issues for the period of February 8th through the 13th.
- Chapter Four continues the timeline describing the activities during the most critical period of the event, which was from February 14th through the 19th.
- Chapter Five provides key findings and recommendations to prevent or minimize the impact of future winter storms.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- the electric utility structure in Texas
- the types of generation resources available in Texas
- the uniqueness of the Texas electric utility structure
- how the natural gas industry prepares for winter weather
- the shortcomings of ERCOT winter planning assessments
- the processes used by ERCOT to maintain stability
- the energy emergency alert protocols
- the components of the natural gas supply system and its weaknesses
- how natural gas outages progressed during the event
- how wind turbine generators were impacted by the event
- how natural gas-fired generators were impacted by the event
- the importance of frequency control for system stability
- how ERCOT operators were able to avoid a complete system failure
- lessons learned from this event
- what needs to be done to minimize a reoccurrence of the event
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 30 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 5 PDH
Length: 87 pages
