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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Starting in late February, over 2.7 million Texas households were left without energy and over 100 people died as a severe winter storm caused a series of rolling blackouts across Texas, drawing national attention to the state’s energy grid. While some leaders blamed the state-wide outages on wind and solar, an emerging expert consensus suggests that multiple cascading factors—including non-winterized power plants and the state’...

Monday, April 5, 2021 Starting in late February, over 2.7 million Texas households were left without energy and over 100 people died as a severe winter storm caused a series of rolling blackouts across Texas, drawing national attention to the state’s energy grid. While some leaders blamed the state-wide outages on wind and solar, an emerging expert consensus suggests that multiple cascading factors—including non-winterized power plants and the state’s deregulated, independent ...

U.S. President Joe Bidens American Jobs Plan includes $100 billion in spending on the nations aging power infrastructure. Source: Justin Sullivan/Getty Editorial via Getty Images U.S. President Joe Bidens $2 trillion infrastructure and energy plan would dramatically reshape the nations energy landscape by offering new tax incentives for clean energy, electric transmission projects, and carbon capture and storage technology. However, industry experts cautioned that the huge proposal, which Biden...

April 1, 2021 Two months after snow, ice, and temperatures as low as -6° F left 4 million Texans without electricity, the fight over how to power the state’s future is just heating up.  In February, the Texas grid came four minutes away from complete collapse. Half of the state’s electricity generating capacity failed. Coal, nuclear, wind, and solar plants left gaping holes in the state’s energy supply, and natural gas left the biggest: 17,000 megawatts. The outage left at least 100 pe...

Electricity is an essential part of modern life and important to many basic services, including healthcare, transportation and even water. But as climate change accelerates, the electrical system in the United States will face more frequent extreme weather events that could cause outdated infrastructure to fail, potentially leaving millions of people without heat and other essentials in life-threatening conditions.  Over the past three decades, extreme weather events such as hurricanes, ice st...

Electricity is an essential part of modern life and important to many basic services, including healthcare, transportation and even water. But as climate change accelerates, the electrical system in the United States will face more frequent extreme weather events that could cause outdated infrastructure to fail, potentially leaving millions of people without heat and other essentials in life-threatening conditions.  Over the past three decades, extreme weather events such as hurricanes, ice st...

In the wake of the storm, will Texas start to weatherize and insulate their pipes without pressure from the rest of the country?

Where does Iowa fit on the energy grid system? Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:02 PM This week, both Iowa and Texas faced below-freezing temperatures as residents bundled up indoors. The difference? As winter storms rolled in, more than 3 million Texas customers were hit with power blackouts as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the nation’s only single-state electric grid operator, failed to meet surging demand. Iowans have experienced widespread po...

In an exclusive interview, former Gov. Pat Quinn shares his thoughts on the utilities crisis that left millions without electricity, heat or water in Texas for days and the lessons he says Illinois legislators should learn from the experience.

Lawmakers review SC’s electric grid in aftermath of Texas winter storm Lawmakers review SC’s electric grid in aftermath of Texas winter storm By Emily Wakeman | March 2, 2021 at 8:01 PM EST - Updated March 2 at 9:57 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Tuesday, lawmakers discussed South Carolina’s electric grid and its ability to withstand winter storms like the one that left millions in Texas without power. It comes in the wake of Governor Henry McMaster directing the Office of Reg...