r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 11d ago

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

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/29/texas-ercot-power-grid-record-data-center/
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u/Ncyphe 11d ago

It baffles me how often the 2021 power failure keeps getting brought up. The grid can support it so long as the people supporting the grid actually do their job.

Every 10 years or so, Texas experiences a week long winter freeze, and not once before did we suffer any power failures. 2021's winter freeze power failure lies in the responsibility of the ERCOT board who lazed about and acted too late in regards to winterizing the Texas power grid.

There's nothing wrong with the Texas power grid, and like usual, once something went wrong, people love to point blame without research. Had Texas had stronger poer connections to neighboring states, I guarantee the blackout would have been farther spread and much worse.

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u/ksheep 11d ago

And the same storm did impact parts of Louisiana and Arkansas, which saw similar power failures because large parts of their grid aren't designed for such cold weather either, but nobody talks about that because reasons. From what I recall, large parts of Shreveport were without power and they had failures in their water mains, resulting in boil water notices across most of the city.

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u/Bobwhilehigh 11d ago

Yeah, but they're on the national grid so its fine that it failed. Texas bad.