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Posted October 3, 2024

Data centers and cryptocurrency mining in Texas drive strong power demand growth ›

annual ERCOT net energy for load with detail for large flexible load demand

Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), September 2024
Note: The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) defines large flexible load as any facility drawing power from the grid with an expected peak demand capacity of 75 megawatts or more.

In the United States, electricity consumption is growing fastest in Texas, where the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) manages 90% of the load on the state’s power grid. One of the main sources of growing demand for power is large-scale computing facilities such as data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations, although their future demands are uncertain. In our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we expect electricity demand from customers identified by ERCOT as large flexible load (LFL) will total 54 billion kilowatthours (kWh) in 2025, up almost 60% from expected demand in 2024. This expected demand from LFL customers would represent about 10% of total forecast electricity consumption on the ERCOT grid next year.

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Data Highlights

  • 10.195
  • million tons
  • 0.383 million tons
    from week earlier
  • 1.178 million tons
    from year earlier
  • 3,547
  • Bcf
  • 55 Bcf
    from week earlier
  • 127 Bcf
    from year earlier
  • 416.9
  • million barrels
  • 3.9 million barrels
    from week earlier
  • 2.9 million barrels
    from year earlier

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