Power use in Texas hit a preliminary all-time high on Tuesday as homes and businesses cranked up air conditioners to escape a three-week-old heat wave, according to data from the state's power grid operator.
The high temperature in Houston, the biggest city in Texas, hit a high of 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, Weather.com reported. That compared with a normal high of 93.2 degrees Fahrenheit for this time of year.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said power use reached a preliminary 80,828 megawatts at 6 p.m. CST, topping the grid's previous record of 80,148 MW set on July 20, 2022.ERCOT, which operates the grid for more than 26 million customers representing about 90% of the state's power load, said it has enough resources to meet current demand.
ERCOT had forecast demand would set records on several prior days since mid-June but it did not do so until Tuesday, in part because consumers heeded the grid operator's June 20thExtreme weather was a reminder of the 2021 February freeze that left millions of Texans without power, water and heat for days during a deadly storm as ERCOT scrambled to prevent a grid collapse after an unusually large amount of generation shut.
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