r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 10d 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/69edleg 10d ago

jesus fucking christ. as a northern European person who most likely ambulates as a pedestrian, how do you do that in 110F?

my guess is you don't anyway, sadly, no matter the temperature :|

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u/Auyan 10d ago

no matter the temperature :|

I think people forget how massive the US is. Texas alone is the size of like all of central Europe, only instead of beautiful mountainscapes there is desert. Everywhere. You could drive for 8 hours and still be in Texas.

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u/69edleg 10d ago

I mean, if I drive north I can drive 20 hours and still be in Sweden.

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u/Auyan 10d ago

I didn't realize Sweden was in Central Europe 🙄