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From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Birmingham: A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the creator of a popular website for tracking COVID-19 in the state is pondering what will become of his creation once the health care crisis eases. David Marconnet told WBHM he sees two options for his Bama Tracker site, which has been visited by at least 1.5 million people so far and presents publicly available data about the virus in easily accessible, understandable charts and graphs. Bama Tracker could remain online as an archive for researchers or anyone who wants to look through pandemic d...

Texas blackout: How can electricity grids weather climate shocks? Feb. 26 04:28 am JST Mar. 27 | 12:40 am JST WASHINGTON The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. © Thomson Reuters Foundation ©2021 GPlusMedia Inc. Feb. 26 07:19 am JST Another option is working with other states to share energy, in the event of power failures. Texas stands out as not having any such arrangements due to its independent power grid. The most hilarious thing about the blacko...

USEA Press Briefing on 'The Lessons of Texas' on Feb. 26 The first priority is to find out what happened, generator by generator, system by system and fuel by fuel.” — Llewellyn King Executive Producer and Host, "White House Chronicle"WASHINGTON, DC, USA, February 25, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Texas deep freeze was close to the sum of all fears for electric and gas utilities. If it could go wrong, it did go wrong, and Texans suffered. It has been a shot heard around the world. Clearly Texas must rethink, rebuild, and reprioritize. Everything in the state is on the...

Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,  rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free. To access all other news will require a subscription, as it did pre-pandemic. The good news is tha...

Electric grids need reform, but climate change could push the limits of their reliability to the breaking point.