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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by criddell on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:55AM (#26142260)
Just about every Texas building has air conditioning which is blasting for those 100 days of summer where it's often above 100 degrees. I'm surprised that a few days of cold is a bigger load than the crazy heat of summer.
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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by unpolloloco on Monday February 15, 2021 @08:07AM (#26142343)
I'd think it's the difference between cooling 30F (100->70) vs heating 60F (10->70)
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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by criddell on Monday February 15, 2021 @08:29AM (#26142519)
That makes sense.

Edit: Now that the sun is up and shining through our windows, the duty cycle of our (natural gas) furnace has dropped way off. I'm pretty sure our energy usage today will be less than on a 100 degree day.

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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by xyzzyz on Monday February 15, 2021 @08:10AM (#26142369)
Cooling from 100 degrees to 70 uses much less energy than heating from 10 to 70.
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