Ercot Winter Storm 2024 Forecast. Many analyses say that if we had a similar storm — a storm of the 2021 magnitude — there would still be blackouts in the state. San antonio — as the electric reliability council of texas, or ercot, held its final board meeting of 2023, ceo pablo vegas gave an operations update as winter begins.

Days before cold temperatures hit, ercot demand forecasts predicted an 85.5 gw peak during the event,. Since the massive grid failures and blackouts caused by winter storm uri in february 2021, texans have come to anticipate freeze events with a sense of dread, and for good reason.