Texas Grid Faces Another Test With Power Experts Assessing Near Miss
- State’s grid is “now expensive and dangerous.”: Aspire’s Sinn
- Texans warned electricity supplies may fall short on Thursday
Power for delivery during the tightest period was 100 times the typical price for this time of year.
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Texas is bracing for another night of tight power supplies as an unprecedented heatwave stokes demand for electricity to run air conditioners across the second-largest US state.
Electricity supplies are seen falling short of demand between 7:15 pm and 8:30 pm local time, according to five-minute forecasts compiled by Nrgstream, a data provider.