The searing heating has sent Texans rushing for relief. The use of air conditioners, coupled with population growth, has shattered records for power demand. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which runs the power grid serving 90 percent of the state, said Sunday it has broken its r...
In a survey last month, nearly one quarter of Texas businesses said this summer's heat has negatively impacted their revenue and production. Sep 8, 2023 Extreme heat, the most lethal climate disaster Temperature records have been breaking all over, as our Earth registers some of the hottes...
Excessive Heat Warnings are in place for more than 25 million people from Dallas to Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Corpus Christi in Texas. Cities such as Lawton, Duncan and Durant in Oklahoma are also under the Excessive Heat Warnings. BUDGET-FRIENDLY WAYS TO KEEP COOL DURING HEAT WAVES H...
Las Vegas and Death Valley are in the extreme category, meaning there will be little to no overnight relief and the heat could impact health. In the Southwest, Bracketville, Texas, near the state's Western border with Mexico, is in the extreme category. Record-br...
The Texas power market's reliability and stable prices in the face of repeated brutal heat waves drew an analyst's praise July 31, but the natural gas-fired fleet's grueling workload could present reliability problems in late August and September as solar power output and daylight hours ...
breaking long-standing temperature records andintensifying what had already been an extremely hot summer. In Europe, the heat wave has been described as the worst in over 200 years, causing wildfires across Spain, Portugal a...
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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas set another record peakload on July 11, forecast yet higher records for July 12-13, and notified market participants of a triple-digit high temperature forecast across Central Texas through July 17, which support triple-digit power prices and strengthen nat...
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“The thermal plants have bounced up and down,” Lewin told CNN, saying thermal plant outages during heatwaves have been high by Texas grid manager ERCOT’s own standards. “You have the thermal outages being consistent in that high level and renewables doing quite w...