CPS Energy CEO Rudy Garza said he doesn’t just think Texans will break last year’s all-time power-use record this summer — they’ll shatter it. While he predicts the San Antonio region will top its own peak use by about 100 megawatts, the leader of the nation’s largest city-owned utility said Texans are likely to blow past 100,000 megawatts of demand this year for the first time in state history.
Energy acquiring three gas-fired generating plants in $785 million deal with Talen Energy Medina said his team is on track to complete vegetation control — mainly tree trimming — on about 1,000 miles of transmission lines. His team also runs drills with will continue to lean on energy conservation this summer, especially to manage a known transmission choke point near San Antonio. If those lines get overloaded as they did last September, the statewide grid is at risk of cascading outages during the evening period.
’s calls for Texans to conserve power not likely to end anytime soon as grid stays stretched “Orange” means the grid’s reliability is at risk — a condition that would be triggered by hasn’t resorted to using outages since the deadly winter storm of February 2021. Last summer,