Weekly average electricity demand across ERCOT remained near record levels as sustained high temperatures elevated consumption.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that weekly average electricity load in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, remained near a record high. ERCOT is the regional transmission organization serving most of Texas.

Sustained high temperatures were identified as the reason electricity demand remained persistently elevated. The item refers to average load over a week rather than a single instantaneous or daily peak-demand record.

The supplied description did not provide the weekly average in megawatts, the prior record value, reserve margins, generation outages, or wholesale-price data. It therefore establishes the persistence and weather-related cause of high demand without quantifying grid scarcity.