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Days where the temperature here never got above freezing and we lost most of the local units. those impacts lasted for weeks and weeks after, and so we made that decision to harden our assets and invest in new technology and infrastructure. >> reporter: the windierized plant he is showing us around today exists in part because of that big freeze. >> were designed to run in the summer but there is a few times with an over night low we really got to get the systems up and ready and our team was ab...

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>> designed to run in the summer but a few times where we have an overnight low that we really got to get all the systems up and ready and our team was able to do that. >> its a lot easier than with a brand-new plant because we design it for minus 10. you have the top technology. its state-of-the-art. so you can design in these redundant systems. >> reporter: built-in redundancies that needed to be tapped into when natural gas supply dropped. >> we went into diesel operations with the first unit...

Systems up and ready. were team is ready to do that. >> its a lot easier with a brand-new plant now were designing it for minus 10, you have state of the art and design the redundant systems. >> reporter: and built-in redundancy needs to be tapped in when temperatures dropped. >> we went into it on monday of this week, thats when we started seeing issues with gas line pressure. >> reporter: but another reason el paso isnt in the dark its located so far from other lone star cities that its not on...

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Paso is a bit more complicated and rooted in experience. >> we had gas shortages, water shortages, power outages. >> reporter: ralph loya like everyone else in el paso couldnt forget the 2011 deep freez freeze. >> it was a catastrophe we werent prepared for. >> reporter: he was in the control room 12 months ago when it came crasheing down. >> we actually had three days where the entire town of el paso was below freezing. we made that decision to harden our assets. we were going to invest until n...

Paso never got above freezing. and we lost most of our local units. those impacts lasted for weeks and weeks after. and so we made that decision that we would harden our assets, that we would invest in new technology and invest in new infrastructure. >> reporter: the winterized plant that he is showing us around today exists in part because of that big freeze. >> there are these few times where we have an overnight low that we really have to get all the systems up and ready. and our team was abl...

Senior vice president for operations was in the control room when it all came crashing down. >> we had three days when the temperature in el paso never got above freezing. we lost most of our local units. those impacts lasted for weeks and weeks after. we made that decision that we were going to harden our assets, invest in new technology and invest in new infrastructure. >> reporter: the winterized plant that the manager is showing us around today exists in part because of that big freeze. >> i...