Texas Faces Growing Electricity Needs

Texas used a record amount of electricity on Tuesday, the Electric Reliability Council has reported, noting that the data has yet to be made official after calculating meter readings. Bloomberg said in a report on the news that the record was driven by higher demand for air conditioning amid August temperatures. The publication also recalled that this year’s summer in Texas is still cooler than the summer of 2023, when demand for electricity broke record on 21 occasions. Earlier in the year, ERCOT forecast that electricity demand in the Lone…