In the East Region, stocks were 60 Bcf below the 5-year average following net injections of 42 Bcf.
I assume a lot of natural gas is being used to replace coal, and that there is a lot of demand for air conditioning today.
Note the arithmetic errors in this very simple spreadsheet -- maintained by the same government that predicts dire consequences of global warming 100 years from now. (It's possible these numbers are rounded from raw data resulting in the errors.)
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Grid Alert In Texas
By the way, there's a "grid alert" in north Texas today. Folks are being asked to minimize use of electricity today; the grid is having trouble keeping up .... and part of the problem --- the wind is not blowing hard enough to for turbines to reach nameplate capacity. By the time the backup natural gas / coal power plants are ramped up, the "grid alert" will be over.
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