Texas Braces for Another Heat Wave and Power Demand Peak

Texas' power grid operator, ERCOT, has forecasted that electricity use will break records this week due to a heat wave, with demand expected to hit 85,471 megawatt hours on June 27, topping last year's peak of 80,148 MWh. This would be at least the third time in about two weeks that the grid operator has forecast record high demand. Extreme weather is 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 was shut down.