{"id":261249,"date":"2026-04-22T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261249\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:08:08","slug":"today-on-texas-standard-ercot-forecast-raises-new-questions-about-texas-power-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261249\/","title":{"rendered":"Today on Texas Standard: ERCOT\u00a0forecast raises new questions about Texas power demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERCOT says Texas electric demand could reach\u00a0nearly 370,000\u00a0megawatts by 2032, quadrupling our current\u00a0capacity. Much of the projected growth is tied to data centers, raising fresh questions about grid planning \u2014 including how many of those centers will actually be\u00a0built. <\/p>\n<p class=\"meta \">By Texas StandardApril 22, 2026\u00a09:00 am<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasstandard.org\/stories\/categories\/ts-original\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Standard Original<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasstandard.org\/stories\/categories\/show\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Shows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERCOT says Texas electric demand could reach\u00a0nearly 370,000\u00a0megawatts by 2032, quadrupling our current\u00a0capacity. Much of the projected growth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-261249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}