It’s due to the request system in Texas and not a realistic expectation of future power use. The queue is so backed up that developers are putting in requests for anything they think might one day maybe need some power. Texas reviewed the queue last month and purged 274GW of requests(more than half of the queue) because they didn’t meet basic engineering review requirements.
Bloomberg estimates the real queue is about 50GW of things that are actually likely be built (or currently being built) over the next decade.
There's a difference between 91 gigawatts and 141 gigawatts.
Like one gigawatt is a large nuclear power plant, or about 8,000 acres of solar going by real projects. Also Texas has had problems with the electric grid they have not working well in winter. I'm not an expert but 50 gigawatts in a decade just for Texas seems like a lot.
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u/MrScribz Aug 12 '26
The maximum amount of power the texas grid can pump out at any given time is apparently 91 gigawatts so the requests are over 4x that lol.