Texas calls for energy conservation as extreme heat spikes electricity demand

www.texastribune.org

dirtmayor ( @dirtmayor@beehaw.org )

EnvironmentEnglish • 1 year ago

14

Texas calls for energy conservation as extreme heat spikes electricity demand

www.texastribune.org

dirtmayor ( @dirtmayor@beehaw.org )

EnvironmentEnglish • 1 year ago

Texans are being asked to conserve energy from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday as temperatures climb over 100 degrees for much of the state. Power grid operator ERCOT says the situation is not currently an emergency.

HotTopNewOld

Chat

Seathru ( @Seathru@beehaw.org )
link
fedilink
English
7•1 year ago
And this is just the first week of ~100deg temps for most of Texas. It’s gonna be a long summer.

Environment

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !environment@beehaw.org

Environmental and ecological discussion, particularly of things like weather and other natural phenomena (especially if they’re not breaking news).

See also our Nature and Gardening community for discussion centered around things like hiking, animals in their natural habitat, and gardening (urban or rural).

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

1 user / day
7 users / week
36 users / month
158 users / 6 months
3.92K subscribers
852 Posts
1.83K Comments
Modlog