The heat we’re experiencing here in June has increased the demand for electricity, and you know it's only going to get hotter. This is Texas, after all. After that cold snowy episode we went through back in February, hearing things like that makes me nervous, but I'll continue. On Monday, ERCOT (The Electric Reliability Council Of Texas) asked residents of the Lone Star State to reduce their electricity usage through Friday as a precaution. That included setting our thermostats at 78. How many people are going to do that? Well, maybe if they knew what's going on. off-line. There were reportedly around 12,000 Megawatts of power unavailable, which would equal about 2.4 million homes affected to some extent.