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How the electricity markets respond to a nuclear trip

Looking at the data of how ERCOT maintains grid stability when a nuclear plant unexpectedly goes offline.

Using data on Grid Status, we took a look at how pooled resources and advanced operational strategies help to prevent significant disruptions when shocks to the system occur. This delay in outlier price swings relative to the event was likely due to a combination of low load at the time and systemwide generation already ramping as Texas woke up. As load continued to increase and ancillaries were deployed in the immediate aftermath of the trip a few extremely negative intervals ended up being part of the solution to reconfigure output on the grid.

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