Posted on 06/12/2022 5:49:08 PM PDT by McGruff
With Texas being walloped by a merciless heatwave this weekend, the state’s energy provider said on Sunday it surpassed record demand.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas’s (ERCOT) supply and demand tracker showed its current power supply peaking at 74, 997 megawatts, surpassing its previous record of 74,820 megawatts in August 2019.
Despite the high demand, however, ERCOT said it had around 10,000 extra megawatts above peak demand. ERCOT, which supplies more to some 26 million Texas, representing about 90% of the state’s power load, said previously it expects to break records as economic growth boosts usage in homes and businesses.
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They will ration. Maybe with alternate day charging.
Serfs don’t have cars.
105 here in Dallas today.
Thermostat set to 81, it will cycle off for about 4 minutes and then kick back on.
Boxer briefs and a tshirt are the uniform of the day around the house.
Typical Dallas early summer day.
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“Serfs don’t have cars.”
“Serfs WILL NOT have cars. Only people who can show a critical need will be permitted to own cars, but first we need to get rid of Putin and put Russia in its place, in our New World Order.”
I guess they didn’t consider what would happen if Putin chose to not play ball.
Beto Dork is disappointed.
He had hoped to ride grid failure into the Governor’s mansion.
101°F 25 miles NE of Houston @ 3:00 PM today.
Instant replay is on tap for tomorrow.
GENERATOR? THAT??? ROFLMFWAO!!
Be here in Charlotte tomorrow.
I purchased black-out curtains for bird noise and sun for upstairs windows. It should help.
Blah, blah, blah. How much electricity was used in 2011 when we had 100 days of 100+ temps and we had no blackout worries. How much was used in 1980 when we hit 115 and no blackouts? Tomorrow is only supposed to be 101.
Here’s an idea, deport every last illegal and save the grid.
I don’t bother with the T-shirt...
The dates you mention were before we loaded up on a bunch of wimp Californians....
Looks like a substation to me.
Absolutely clueless "journalists". LOL!
You don't have to be ignorant to be a "journalist", but it helps.
They know so little, they don't know what they don't know.
Did Brandon tell the author to write that? I thought we were in a major contraction right now and everything is collapsing.
Better yet, resume burning Texas lignite.
LMAO! What economic growth??
It’s a heat wave, ya jackwads.
I asked my neighbor Charlie about this. He said Charlie don’t serf.
WInd was pretty low, too.
Tommorrow (a work day) will be the load test.
Before Obama, the 1/2 Mile long train of Wyoming Coal would run down 287 in 15 minute intervals.
I haven’t seen a Coal train in years. My Electricty is 2X what it was back then.
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