Texas power usage record is set during cold wave
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid operator for most of the state, reported a winter record of 55,856 megawatts Friday between 7 and 8 a.m. to erase the previous high of 52,001 set just 12 hours previously between 7 and 8 p.m. Thursday.
[Cold in Texas also.]
I’m in South central Texas, about 25 miles from the coast, and it was 17* last night. Supposed to be about that tonight too.
Everything in my flowerbeds is brown and dead.