New figures from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas show that electricity demand in the state broke its previous record of 85.5 GW, set three years earlier, 45 times during the summer of 2026. On July 22, ERCOT logged an all-time high peak demand of 91.1 GW.
The CleanTechnica article, titled "Solar, Wind, Battery Storage, And Politics — It's Complicated," places these records in the context of Texas's growing renewable and battery capacity and the political debates surrounding it. The excerpt does not provide details on how those factors interacted with the demand spikes.
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