Texas Power Grid: Capitalism at Its Finest 😩🔥

In the sun-scorched dystopia that is Texas, folks are blasting their A/Cs and setting up fans just to avoid becoming human jerky. And guess what? The power grid is like, "Yo, I can't even." Here's the oh-so-cheerful rundown. 🤘🏻

People are also reading: How to stay kinda cool while the world burns or something idk 🤷‍♂️

ERCOT: " record high power demand, just like we told ya 💥"

So, the demands on the Texas power grid hit an all-time high on Tuesday, as reported by the Dallas Morning News. With most of Texas under an oppressive heat warning, demand peaked at a cool 85,559 megawatts, breaking last August's record. Thanks, climate change! 👏

But wait, there's more! Other factors include Texas' exploding population and industrial users like data centers and Earth-killing cryptocurrency miners. And let's not forget, Texas is the only state that's like, "Federal regulation? * Nah, we good.*" #TexasPride 🙄

Despite all this, power remained mostly unaffected by Wednesday. Except for the 8,500 Harris County residents chilling in the dark. NBD. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Back in June, ERCOT was like, "August gonna be tough, fam." They predicted a higher chance of emergency alerts between 4 and 9 p.m. Fun times! 🎉

Walt Baum, CEO of Powering Texans, said we need more power generation capacity. Ya think?! 🤦‍♀️

Houston to get super-duper battery energy storage system 🔋🎉

While some Harris County folks are enjoying their outages, Jupiter Power just announced a fancy new 400MWh dispatchable power facility. Hooray for progress! (I guess...) 😒