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Glass partitions are placed on either side of the center chair of the council chamber in place for new COVID-19 guidelines, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, at City Hall Rebecca Harrell
The San Marcos City Council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the city's electric utility division to implement a voluntary program allowing customers to purchase renewable energy at its March 2 meeting.Â
Assistant Director for Public Services for Electric Utility Tyler Hjorth says the program will allow electric customers to pay an additional $5 a month for one year to guarantee they are receiving 100% renewable energy at their home and business.
When the time for annual renewals approaches, customers will be notified of any price change and can decide to continue the program or opt-out of it.
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TOLEDO, OH — The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink.
The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse.
Customers in Ohio state experienced 5.09 hours without power in 2019 — 0.39 more hours than the national average of 4.7 hours in 2019, which is the most recent information available, according to the EIA.