Texas power use hits monthly record during heatwave

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Reuters) - Power demand in Texas hit a monthly record on Tuesday and will likely break that high on Wednesday as consumers keep their air conditioners cranked up to escape a lingering spring heatwave.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the grid for most of the state, said conditions were normal early Wednesday.

At the start of the current heat, however, ERCOT was forced to ask customers to conserve energy on May 13 after several power plants shut unexpectedly, causing real-time prices to soar to over $4,000 per megawatt hour (MWh).

Extreme weather reminds Texans of the 2021 February freeze that left millions 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 was shut.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/texas-power-use-hits-monthly-record-during-heatwave/ar-AAXq8ZZ

Here we go again.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. According to the Weather Channel site....

Temps in the 90's until Saturday as a break comes in for several days.

Texas is a mess.

[Comfortably_Numb]

2. Had a big oak thinned way out yesterday, and had them leave the limbs for firewood

to be able to heat the house on my own this winter. Tested the generator this morning so I don’t lose two fridges and a huge upright freezer of meat when the grid starts tripping offline—- in MAY!!! Shithole state. Fuck Greg Abbott….

[Torchlight]

3. We're getting a pretty early taste of summer this year.

Past two weeks in Dallas we've been flirting with 20- and 30-year record highs for the dates; and only this past weekend, TX residents were notified that ERCOT was asking public to reduce peak hour usage and warning of possible gray-outs and rolling blackouts.

But damn, it has been miserably hot and humid this May-- something I don't expect in north Texas until late June (when summer hits us for real and stays around until late October).