{"id":1952012,"date":"2023-06-20T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texans-asked-to-turn-down-ac-and-shut-down-appliances-to-avoid-blackouts\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T19:31:11","slug":"texans-asked-to-turn-down-ac-and-shut-down-appliances-to-avoid-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texans-asked-to-turn-down-ac-and-shut-down-appliances-to-avoid-blackouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans urged to conserve energy to prevent blackouts."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexans-asked-to-turn-down-ac-and-shut-down-appliances-to-avoid-blackouts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1952012&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Texas Grid Operator Urges Conservation Amid Heat Wave<\/h2>\n<p>The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has issued a &#8220;Weather Watch&#8221; alert, urging residents to conserve electricity and take measures to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-begs-residents-to-protect-energy-grid-scale-back-charging-electric-vehicles\/\" title=\"California Begs Residents To Protect Energy Grid, Scale Back Charging Electric Vehicles\">avoid power outages<\/a>. With a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-100-dead-from-sweltering-heat-wave-health-care-workers-leave-cancelled-as-emergency-hospital-beds-are-opened\/\" title=\"Almost 100 dead due to scorching heat wave - Health care workers' vacations canceled as emergency hospital beds are activated.\">searing heat wave<\/a> and record-breaking demand forecasts, the grid operator is calling on Texans to raise their thermostats and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-texas-faces-heat-wave-power-companies-are-automatically-raising-the-temperatures-on-smart-thermostats\/\" title=\"As Texas Faces Heat Wave, Power Companies Are Automatically Raising The Temperatures On Smart Thermostats\">reduce energy consumption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Voluntary Measures to Prevent Power Shortages<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>ERCOT has asked residents to refrain from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-2-million-without-power-amid-u-s-deep-freeze-thousands-of-flights-canceled\/\" title=\"Nearly 2 Million Without Power Amid U.S. Deep Freeze, Thousands of Flights Canceled\">running large appliances<\/a>, such as dishwashers and washing machines, and to turn off unnecessary lights. The request also extends to businesses and government agencies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Forecasters predict that demand could reach a peak of 81,230 megawatts, surpassing the previous record of 80,148 megawatts set last July. This marks the latest in a series of demand forecasts that ERCOT has exceeded in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>While ERCOT emphasizes that the request is voluntary and not an emergency, the memory of the devastating power outages during the 2021 Winter Storm Uri still lingers. With over 4.5 million Texans losing power and hundreds of lives lost, the state remains on edge.<\/p>\n<h3>Triple-Digit Temperatures and High Humidity<\/h3>\n<p>As temperatures soar into the triple digits across many parts of the state, the National Weather Service warns of a heat index as high as 116 degrees Fahrenheit in the Houston area. The combination of extreme heat and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texans-asked-to-turn-down-ac-and-shut-down-appliances-to-avoid-blackouts\/\" title=\"Texans urged to conserve energy to prevent blackouts.\">humidity puts additional strain<\/a> on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>The grid operator anticipates that these challenging conditions will persist through Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay informed and take part in conserving energy to help prevent power shortages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst scorching temperatures and high demand, Texas grid operator urges residents to conserve electricity. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, responsible for 90% of the state&#8217;s power grid, issued a &#8220;Weather Watch&#8221; and requested people to raise thermostats to prevent potential outages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1952013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[11838,29194,4486,5495,14211,13381],"class_list":["post-1952012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-blackouts","tag-conserve","tag-energy","tag-prevent","tag-texans","tag-urged"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}