Only as a last resort (Power Emergency) to avoid the risk of a complete blackout does ERCOT ask utilities to reduce demand by dropping load through rotating outages.

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" One day the ship's captain, Icarus' father, announces: "We are making an emergency course diversion to avoid an uncharted black hole.

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He said the government would declare a state of emergency to release extra funding to avoid a fuel spill.

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