The two-day shutdown comes at a time of record-breaking extreme heat across the globe, with July poised to be the hottest month in history.
The two-day shutdown comes at a time of record-breaking extreme heat across the globe, with July poised to be the hottest month in history.
The highest temperature ever recorded at El Paso, since 1879, was 114°F (46°C), less than the highest temperature reported in Iran of 122°F (50°C). 122°F would be a new all-time high in Texas, which the news would certainly mention.
And Texas’s notoriously shitty ERCOT power grid has to endure those temperatures and keep working to even have air conditioning available. Two days ago it hit a new record for megawatts delivered. Then yesterday it broke that record, setting the 7th record high this summer. I’m glad the grid is still functioning, but I wonder how long it can stay that way before resorting to load shedding or experiencing an outage.
I wonder when Texas will get its head out of its arse and connect to the rest of the nation’s grid. It’s literally killing people to not have that connection.