Another bout of power supply shortages hit Texas this week amid power plant maintenance season, prompting the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to call on Texans to conserve energy. However, unlike during the February Freeze, this time, the shortage was a lot more temporary, with things returning to normal within a day, the Houston Chronicle reports . Power supplies tightened on Tuesday afternoon, the daily reports, causing electricity prices on the wholesale market to reach up to $2,000 per megawatt-hour. That was up from about $25 per kWh earlier in the day. By the evening, however, supply had ramped up. Unfortunately, there is a chance for a repeat of yesterday’s power supply situation, at least according to ERCOT’s vice president in charge of grid planning and operations. “These (power plants) are big complicated machines,” Woody Rickerson said, as quoted by the Chronicle. “They require maintenance. You can’t run them […]