Texas: Power Surge or Power Splurge?
Gerard Reid and Laurent Segalen ask Arushi to make sense of Texas: fast load growth, low prices and a renewables boom.
Redefining Energy
In brief
Texas is an outlier among Western power systems, with the fastest-growing load, very low prices and rapid renewable development. On episode 187 of Redefining Energy, hosts Gerard Reid and Laurent Segalen bring in Arushi to explain how the state got here and what its projections, full of AI and data centers, mean for the grid ahead.
Key points
- 01Why Texas combines fast load growth, low prices and a boom in wind and solar.
- 02What AI and data center growth projections mean for the ERCOT grid.



