Why The Texas Power Grid Crashed Leaving 4 Million Without Electricity Why The Texas Power Grid Crashed Leaving 4 Million Without Electricity The immediate question facing the Texas power sector is whether its participants are willing to pay for winterization measures that are common farther north, even for a once-in-a-decade spell of weather.
Updated: February 17, 2021 9:34 am IST
Four million Texans have been without power after the grid crashed
When it gets really cold, it can be hard to produce electricity, as customers in Texas and neighboring states are finding out. But it s not impossible. Operators in Alaska, Canada, Maine, Norway and Siberia do it all the time.
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More than 20 deaths have been linked to Winter Storm Uri, including a woman and her three elementary-school-age grandchildren who died in a house fire around 2:00 a.m. Tuesday in Sugar Land, Texas.
Editor’s note: With millions of customers out of power as Texas grapples with record-low temperatures, interest has been high in the agency that oversees.