Sunday broke records for both heat and electricity usage across Texas. Texans’ peak electricity usage topped 77,400 megawatts, edging past the prior record for weekend usage set on Saturday.
Houston reached 104 degrees at Bush Intercontinental Airport, shattering the 1998 record for July 10 of 101 degrees.record for weekend usageLeaders of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas , which operates the grid for more than 26 million customers representing about 90 percent of the state’s power load, repeatedly have said the agency has enough resources available to meet demand.
ERCOT in May had predicted in its annual seasonal assessment that demand this summer would peak in mid-August at just 77,317 megawatts. But peak demand already has outstripped that projection on both weekdays and weekends, driven in part by record heat that began in May and has not abated as of early July.
The Metropolitan Transit Agency is offering free rides to any of five city of Houston cooling centers, which will close at 6 p.m. Sunday; city facilities will return to normal operating hours on Monday. Click here for an
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