Electricity demand in the Lower 48 states—the contiguous United States excluding Alaska and Hawaii—set new all-time highs on two consecutive days in the last week of July, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in an Aug. 5 analysis.
On July 28, coincident peak demand for the Lower 48 states hit 758,053 megawatts (MW) between 6 and 7 p.m. EDT, the agency said. The previous high was 745,020 megawatts, set on July 15, according to the EIA. Coincident peak refers to a simultaneous jump in electricity demand across all regions in the Lower 48
