A request for Texans to conserve energy is expected to last through Friday, June 18.
Author: Jennifer Prohov (WFAA), Eline de Bruijn
Published: 12:57 PM CDT June 14, 2021
Updated: 10:04 PM CDT June 14, 2021
TEXAS, USA —
This story will be updated with new developments Monday.
Texans are being asked to reduce their electric use as much as possible for the rest of the week as more plants were offline than typically expected, according to ERCOT. But no rolling outages are anticipated as Texans continued to conserve energy Monday afternoon, ERCOT officials said.
The conservation request is expected to last through Friday, June 18. At one point Monday, electric demand was predicted to outpace supply as temperatures soar into the triple digits throughout the state, data from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas shows.