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ERCOT Daily Peak Demand

Highest hourly system-wide ERCOT load for each operating day, megawatts.

63,381 on Oct 22, 2026+1,518 since Sep 30, 2021
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U.S. recessionsShades the months the NBER dates as recession. U.S. charts only.5-year rangeThe highest and lowest readings of the last five years, as a band. One-series charts only.High and lowMarks the highest and lowest readings in the window shown.
Current·Data to Oct 22, 2026

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.

What this chart reads

Sources

ERCOT Daily Peak Demand. Source: ERCOT MIS report NP6-345-CD (Actual System Load by Weather Zone), public; history from the Native Load archives. Daily.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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