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Feb 21, 2021 The control room for the Texas electric grid is dominated by a Cineplex-sized screen along one wall. As outdoor temperatures plunged to Arctic levels around the low-slung building 30 miles from Austin last Sunday night, all eyes were on it. The news wasn’t good. Electric demand for heat across the state was soaring, as expected, but green dots on the corner state map started flipping to red. Each was a regional power generator, and they were spontaneously shutting down — three coal plants followed quickly by a gas plant in Corpus Christi. Then another metric began to...

Publishing date: Feb 20, 2021  •  February 21, 2021  •  8 minute read  •  Article content (Bloomberg) — The control room of the Texas electric grid is dominated by a Cineplex-sized screen along one wall. As outdoor temperatures plunged to arctic levels around the low-slung building 30 miles from Austin last Sunday night, all eyes were on it. The news wasn’t good. Electric demand for heat across the state was soaring, as expected, but green dots on the corner state map started flipping to red. Each was a regional power generator, and they were spontaneously shutting down — ...

The greatest forced blackout in U.S. history, as this event has almost certainly become, was the result of a systemic and multifaceted failure.

Texas power crisis is getting worse with millions left in dark  17 Feb 2021 - 22:21 A man crosses Main Street in downtown during record-breaking temperatures in Houston, U.S., February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif Bloomberg The crisis that has knocked out power for days to millions of homes and businesses in Texas and across the central U.S. is getting worse, with blackouts expected to last until at least Thursday. Texas’s grid operator cut power to 2.8 million homes Wednesday morning, just hours after restoring service to 700,000 households. Load on the state’s power system fell ove...

As the hours ticked by and millions of Texans were plunged into frozen darkness, a more sober reality emerged: The greatest forced blackout in U.S. history, as this event has almost certainly become, was the result of a systemic and multifaceted failure.