State officials asked people to turn up their thermostats even as temperatures were forecast to reach as high as 112 degrees Texas officials asked residents to conserve electricity Monday as extreme heat blanketed much of the state and threatened the power grid capacity. With temperatures in Texas forecast to reach as high as 112 degrees Monday, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, an organization that runs most of the state’s power grid, asked Texans to turn up their thermostats one or two degrees and to not run major appliances from…
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