Peak electricity demand in Texas broke June’s record on Thursday and was expected to do so again on Friday, the power grid operator said, but there was no repeat of last week’s problems when a significant amount of generation was out of action. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the grid in most of the state, last week urged consumers to conserve energy to reduce stress and avoid outages as homes and businesses cranked up air conditioners during a heatwave blanketing the U.S. Southwest. Last week’s heatwave hit when ERCOT had an unusually large 11,000 megawatts (MW) of generation out of service, but prices and demand moderated through the rest of the week as power plants returned to service and consumers heeded […]