Managers of the Texas power grid, ERCOT, have an 11-day plan to get the state ready for the eclipse on April 8.
, the associate professor at Rice University of Environmental Engineering, we learned that Texas solar farms in the path of the April 8 eclipse will see a substantial drop in production. That drop is expected to happen between 12:10 p.m. and 3:10 p.m.
"... We still have plenty of other sources that we can turn on and off as needed, especially natural gas power plants. So when it comes to mild weather like we have in the spring, there's plenty of slack in the system," said."Plenty of power plants that aren't being used to their fullest that can ramp up and down when the wind and solar vary.", there are fewer than a dozen solar farms that fall within the anticipated 90% totality on the eastern side of the total eclipse. This includes farms that are within the Houston area. has increased its solar production, making the state the second-largest solar producer in the U.S. after California.
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