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WINTER WEATHER CRIPPLES TEXAS A large winter system blew through Texas this week dropping 6-8 inches of snow and ice in parts of the state and leaving millions without power for days at a time. Freezing temperatures coupled with water and snow on the roads lead to iced out conditions, impassable roads, and multiple, lasting road closures. These conditions led to a shutdown of most businesses, including the state legislature which cancelled all of the scheduled hearings this week. Those hearings...

Lone Star Grid The Arctic blast that shut down power to millions of Texas households last week has brought renewed attention to the isolated Texas power grid that prevented the operator from importing out-of-state electricity. February 24, 2021, 10am PST | Irvin Dawid Share There are three power grids in the lower 48 states: the Eastern Interconnection, the Western Interconnection, and the Texas Interconnection. Kate Galbraith, the former energy and environment reporter for The Texas ...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Man-made disaster: Capitalism and Republicans failed the people of Texas February 19, 2021 10:12 AM CDT By Chauncey K. Robinson People wait in line to fill propane tanks Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Houston. Customers waited over an hour in the freezing rain to fill their tanks....

Frigid weather exposes the nation’s frail power grids People walk on snowy streets in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 16. Photo: The Associated Press By Robert C. Jones Jr. 02-18-2021 Frigid weather exposes the nation’s frail power grids By Robert C. Jones Jr. 02-18-2021 With cold temperatures knocking out electricity to millions of people in Texas and other parts of the country, the United States’ aging infrastructure is once again under scrutiny. University of Miami experts say upg...

Kind of stands out doesn't it?Despite the rest of the central US getting slammed by the same weather system, Texas seems unique in it's catastrophic inability to respond. Part of the reason is ERCOT.ERCOT is the Texas power grid, and it is almost unique among grid systems in that it has very few connections to…

This story was originally published in 2011. Why does Texas have its own electric grid? Texas secessionist inclinations have at least one modern outlet: the electric grid. There are three grids in the Lower 48 states: the Eastern Interconnection, the Western Interconnection — and Texas. The Texas grid is called ERCOT, and it is run by an agency of the same name — the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. ERCOT does not actually cover all of Texas. El Paso is on another grid, as is the uppe...

Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds....

Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds. But grid independence has been violated a few times over the years — not even counting Mexico's help during last week's blackouts.

Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds

Hey, Texplainer: Why does Texas have its own electric grid? Texas’ secessionist inclinations do have one modern outlet: the electric grid. There are three grids in the Lower 48 states: the Eastern Interconnection, the Western Interconnection — and Texas. The Texas grid is called ERCOT, and it is run by an agency of the same name — the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. ERCOT does not actually cover all of Texas. El Paso is on another grid, as is the upper Panhandle and a chunk of East...