AUSTIN — The operator of Texas’ power grid issued a “weather watch” ahead of what the agency projects could be record demand this week as temperatures are...
would be peak summer demand this year. That report also indicated Texas would see brownouts amid the most extreme situations.
Climate change and Texas’ growing population have led to increases in Texans’ use of electricity. It is getting hotter earlier in the year, and Texans are finding more things to plug into the grid as well, such as electrical vehicles, energy consultant Doug Lewin said. Lewin said residents should not be worried. ERCOT’s projections show a healthy amount of reserves. A slightly elevated amount of fossil fuel power plants are experiencing outages and renewable output should be high in the coming days.
Demand is “shockingly high for this early, but it is not out of the realm of what was expected this summer,” he said. In the 2021 winter storm, ERCOT shut off power to nearly half of Texas households as cascading infrastructure failures brought the grid to the brink of collapse. The blackouts led to the deaths of at least 246 Texans.. Philip Jankowski has covered government, politics and criminal justice in Texas for 13 years. He previously worked for the Austin American-Statesman, the Killeen Daily Herald and the Taylor Press. Philip is a graduate of the University of Texas-Austin.
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