Texas power grid sees record-breaking demand during heatwave

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The Texas power grid operator on Monday forecast that demand would reach a record high over the next week as homes and businesses crank up their air conditioners to escape a heat wave settling over the state during the next month or so. High temperatures in Houston were expected to reach 97 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius) on Monday, according to AccuWeather. Although that is only 2 degrees F above the city's normal high for this time of year, energy traders noted temperatures were expected to hit the 90s every day from July 22-Aug. 31.

July 26 - The Texas power grid operator on Monday forecast that demand would reach a record high over the next week as homes and businesses crank up their air conditioners to escape a heat wave settling over the state during the next month or so.

That unrelenting period of extreme weather caused the Electric Reliability Council of Texas , which operates the grid in most of the state, to project power use will reach 74,711 megawatts on Monday evening and 76,875 MW on Aug. 2. Millions of people were left without power during a deadly winter storm in the state in February that exposed the vulnerability of the electric grid in Texas. Prices soared in February as an unusually large amount of generation shut due mostly to freezing gas wells and pipes and frozen wind turbines.

 

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