Texas’ Risk of Summer Blackouts Reduced Thanks to Solar and Batteries

Inside Climate News · By Arcelia Martin · last updated June 28, 2025 – 1:05 AM

The state’s grid operator reported less than a 1 percent chance of emergency events.

By Arcelia Martin

The ever-increasing demand for power in Texas—not only from data centers, but due to industrial electrification, manufacturing and population expansion—has outpaced anything the state’s electricity grid operator has seen or managed in the past, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

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