
Electricity Demand Surges with Oil Patch Boom
From Albuquerque Journal The oil and gas boom in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas is pushing electricity demand on Xcel Energy’s grid to all-time records. The regional transmission network delivered 6.15 gigawatts of electricity to customers on July 19, about 350 megawatts more than the company had predicted in peak demand on any given day for this year, and