Houston Chronicle by Marcy de Luna 2/11/2021
Winter electricity demand could reach an all-time high as frigid temperatures move into Texas, the state's grid manager said Thursday.
An extremely cold air mass that has begun moving south across the central United States could make it to the Gulf of Mexico, with subfreezing temperatures expected to hit Houston beginning this weekend.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the flow of power to more than 26 million Texas customers, has asked generators to prepare their facilities for the extreme cold, including reviewing fuel supplies and planned outages .
The current winter demand record is 65,915 megawatts set from 7 to 8 a.m., Jan. 17, 2018.
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