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Observed large-load peak consumption

3,801MW

As of 13 Mar 2026 · Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) · Outdated as of 12 Apr 2026 Permalink

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Filter, as published: ERCOT slide "Loads Approved to Energize – Observations 2", verbatim: "ERCOT has observed a simultaneous monthly peak consumption of 3801 MW in March 2025 which is a slight decrease since February 2025." Defined by ERCOT as "the maximum value of the sum of all the individual loads per month".
Category: AI infrastructure power · Operating load
Object: ercot_large_load_queue
Measure: Observed large-load peak consumption (funnel_metered_peak_mw)
Family: operating_load · load
Geography: ERCOT · US
Organization: ERCOT
Claim type: Official extract
Method: Text layer of slide 7, exact sentence match; no OCR. Raw sha256 e152e34d90e3. Verified against the source file on 2026-09-14 by TechCarta's automated checks: table values were read twice by OCR and matched, columns sum to their printed totals, and each value was compared with the slide image. Approved for publication by C.J. Fernandes.
Source: Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Large Load Interconnection Status Update
Grid operator (primary) · retrieved 14 Sep 2026
https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2026/03/12/March-TAC-Report.pdf
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Evidence: Outdated as of 12 Apr 2026 Past its re-check date. Describes the evidence recorded for this claim, not whether it is true. How this is decided
Re-check after: 12 Apr 2026 (30 days after the as-of date)
Notes: ERCOT's sentence names "March 2025" in a deck dated 2026-03-13. Recorded verbatim; the month may be a typo in the source.
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5,768MW Outdated as of 12 Apr 2026 Different definitions: Observed large-load peak consumption As of 13 Mar 2026 · Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) · Grid operator (primary) ERCOT slide "Current Large Load Interconnection Queue", table row "Observed Energized", column 2026. ERCOT definition: "Projects that have received Approval to Energize from ERCOT Operations and are fully operational. Represented by all time non-simultaneous peak load consumption." CARTA-OPLOAD-ERCOT-OBSERVED_ENERGIZED-2026-03-13-001

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Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). (2026). Large Load Interconnection Status Update [Observed large-load peak consumption: 3,801 MW, as of 2026-03-13]. Retrieved 2026-09-14, from https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2026/03/12/March-TAC-Report.pdf. Recorded in TechCarta, CARTA-OPLOAD-ERCOT-PEAK_SIMULTANEOUS-2026-03-13-001. https://techcarta.com/carta/CARTA-OPLOAD-ERCOT-PEAK_SIMULTANEOUS-2026-03-13-001/

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@misc{carta_opload_ercot_peak_simultaneous_2026_03_13_001,
  author = {{Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)}},
  title = {Large Load Interconnection Status Update: Observed large-load peak consumption, 3,801 MW (as of 2026-03-13)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2026/03/12/March-TAC-Report.pdf}},
  note = {TechCarta Carta CARTA-OPLOAD-ERCOT-PEAK_SIMULTANEOUS-2026-03-13-001; source retrieved 2026-09-14},
  url = {https://techcarta.com/carta/CARTA-OPLOAD-ERCOT-PEAK_SIMULTANEOUS-2026-03-13-001/}
}

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