Power supplier Vistra expects to take a $1 billion hit from Texas’ epic winter storm
Gas and electric companies are beginning to sort out the toll from the freeze that left millions of Texans without power.
FILE - This Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, file photo shows power lines in Houston. When an unusually heavy winter storm blanketed much of Texas with snow, knocking out electricity to millions of homes and leaving many struggling to find clean water, one sector of the population was particularly vulnerable: inmates in Houston at the state s largest county jail. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)(David J. Phillip)