Most of the power is back on here in Texas. But there’s still outages. I wonder what it would have been if all the power had been restored?

I don’t trust ERCOT to keep it on this summer. I’m up the line from our city hall and police department so the power is restored fast. Also on one of the lines from the national grid. Not a ERCOT line. Abbott’s choice of people who serve on it has always been screwed up. Before the 2021 freeze here he had installed someone from the botched Flint water crisis in ERCOT. As his hero tfg he only hired the best.

Peak demand approached 75GW... but ERCOT can produce in the neighborhood of almost 100GW.

https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/supplyanddemand

TX had a substantial heat wave across the state.

The weather service warning spoke of heat index values up to 115.

And they had no “trouble keeping up”. Record demand for a Spring month comes nowhere close to their peak

"Normally" here the first three weeks of May were quite warm, but pleasantly tolerable. Summer usually didn't start a true bake until mid-June. Last year and this, summer seemed to kick off 3-4 weeks earlier. It's a bummer, because now we bake for 6 months instead of 5. Oh well, at least the humidity is still stifling!

Stay indoors and be careful

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