This actually is a planned outage, for maintenance purposes. They are just issuing a notice that they need to delay a planned outage because they don't have enough reserve resources stocked up elsewhere in the power grid to support the usual demand during the planned maintenance outage. Here's the official Advance Action Notice that they issued:
https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2024/04/26/ERCOT_Trending_Topic_AAN.pdf
so a planned event then?
This actually is a planned outage, for maintenance purposes. They are just issuing a notice that they need to delay a planned outage because they don't have enough reserve resources stocked up elsewhere in the power grid to support the usual demand during the planned maintenance outage. Here's the official Advance Action Notice that they issued: https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2024/04/26/ERCOT_Trending_Topic_AAN.pdf
https://www.ercot.com/news/trendingtopics?utm_source=twitter-x&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trending-topics&utm_term=AAN&utm_content=April-2024
Yeah, something similar happened on Big Island this month. Hmmmm.