Texas power use breaks record in heat wave, power grid operator says

Transmission towers are seen at the CenterPoint Energy power plant on July 11, 2022 in Houston, Texas. ERCOT is urging Texans to voluntarily conserve power today, due to extreme heat potentially causing rolling blackouts.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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