ERCOT: Electricity Use Increased 2.1 Percent In 2013

January 20, 2014

ERCOT said electricity use was up 2.1 percent last year compared with 2012, as coal-fired capacity rebounded. Power plants that burn coal provided 37.2 percent of that electricity, up from 33.8 percent in 2012; natural gas-fired units provided 40.5 percent of the power in 2013, down from 44.6 percent in 2012. Wind power set another record in 2013, providing 9.9 percent of total electricity consumed, up from 9.2 percent in 2012 and just 4.9 percent in 2008. Total demand was 324,859,701 MW for all of 2013. Summer demand peaked at 67,245 MW, up 1 percent from 2012 but below the high of 68,305 MW in 2011.

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