A good problem to have but still a problem. Who would have thought weather forecasting would be critical to grid maintenance.
With just coal/gas/hydro, this can be mitigated much easily, but still needs to be handled with care. If not, then the lack of power generation could cause brownouts for hours or days as backup power generation takes time to spin up.
TVA experienced an issue like this in 2023, where it was inadequately ready for a winter storm: https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/report-examin...
Since we build for "1-in-a-100", it's expected we'll have these failures, as a 1% chance every year is a pretty high chance that will keep increasing as these power companies rely more on non-failsafe power generation strategies. Texas is the extreme example, where over-reliance on those systems caused too much damage.
Also severe weather predictions are crucial to have the staff ready to respond to grid outages due to weather.
They already have to keep an eye on the weather. For example, to predict demand spikes during heatwaves or cold snaps.
Here in the UK they needed to watch the TV because a break or end of a large football match would cause a spike in demand.
It does not, what is with solar proponents and lying?
The problem is they are required to maintain two entirely separate external sources of power at all times. Something drives it below two, the plant trips even though absolutely nothing is wrong with the plant.
HN link for last month's: