Claire Hao
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Claire Hao
@clairehao.bsky.social
Reporting on energy & TX power grid @houstonchronicle.com • ✉️: claire.hao@houstonchronicle.com or clairehao.14 on Signal • RT ≠ endorsement
Year after year, Texas has led the nation in utility-scale clean power deployment.

Texas has long been #1 in total wind farm capacity. The Lone Star State surpassed California in total solar farm capacity last year. And now, Texas is also the fastest-growing market for storage.
March 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Texas residential consumers already pay higher electricity rates than businesses, according to Department of Energy data: eia.gov/state/data.p...
February 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Meanwhile, ERCOT still expects normal grid conditions, aka no need for rotating outages.

ERCOT's dashboard shows enough power supply to meet demand through the entirety of the freeze:
January 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Statewide outages akin to the deadly blackouts of February 2021, however, are unlikely, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said Friday via a "weather watch." ercot.com/news/release...

ERCOT expects enough power supply to meet forecasted higher demand over the next 6 days:
January 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
ERCOT expects normal grid conditions (aka no outages) through next week's freeze, a spokesperson said Wednesday.

ERCOT's dashboard is showing plenty of electricity supply to meet demand through next Tuesday.
January 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
So far, normal grid conditions are expected this week despite the cold (which, in layman’s terms, means outages aren’t expected).

See below: ERCOT is forecasting plenty of available power to meet demand over the next six days.
January 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM