Texas Power Grid - "Lights Out"

If Texas were an independent country, it would rank 7th in gross domestic product globally.  Despite its economic prowess, Texas had the most weather related power outages than any other state from 2000 to 2023.  In February of 2021, the Great Freeze impacted over 10 million Texans. In addition to continuing to repair the massive damage caused to the utility infrastructure, the power grid is overloaded and will continue to be under a severe strain based on growth, development and the increased expansion of new AI Data Centers in our state. How to help homeowners "keep the lights on" today and into the future will be addressed.

Agenda Items:

What is ERCOT

Texas De-regulation

Annual Energy Growth Forecast

Texas Population Growth

Texas Data Center Growth

Texas Ranking on Power Outages

Outage samples

Electric Power Providers (majors)

Electric CO-OPS

ONCOR

Power Generation

Transmission and Delivery

Transmission and Delivery Charges

Modern day home network

Migration from office to home Office

Back up batteries

Battery only Diagram

Back up generators

Power Spike Diagram

Power spike damages

Solar power

Solar Industry growth forecast 

Solar Industry Pros and Cons

Recommendations to homeowners