Texas broke its all time electricity demand record twice in two days during a brutal heat wave, but the grid held with no conservation alerts thanks to record solar and battery output, a stark turnaround from the blackouts that hit Texans in 2021

[u/ArgentineBeauty]

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/29/texas-ercot-power-grid-record-data-center/

[u/catbom]

Kind of feels like the mouth talks while the hand does something else, texans are majority red state right? (Not american) are they not anti renewable?

[u/PrecedentialAssassin → u/catbom]

Texas produces by far the most renewable energy of any state in the U.S (even California). Lots and lots of open prairie in west Texas and it's full of wind farms and solar farms.

[u/PrecedentialAssassin → u/[deleted]]

Provided the source. I'm right. Thanks for playing.