The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and North American Electric Reliability (NERC) have released details from their joint inquiry into the December 2022 winter storm that triggered 90.5 GW of unplanned generation outages during Winter Storm Elliot, which was the U.S. fifth reliability-roiling winter storm in the past 11 years. The report suggests that the storm’s worst conditions on Dec. 23 to 24, 2022, struck as winter loads peaked and unplannedgeneration outages soared to historic levels, with 1,702 individual generating units experiencing 3,565 outages, derates, or failures to start. The presentation also reveals that the crippling extreme cold weather event played out as dry natural gas production in the lower 48 states dropped to a low of 82.5 Bcf/d compared to Dec. 21.
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