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Alerts Customers use the light from a cell phone to look in the meat section of a grocery store in Dallas last week. Photo: LM Otero (AP) Right now, Texas is in the balmy mid-50s. Yet just a week ago, it was colder than Alaska, and we all know what happened next. Much of the state’s energy capacity got knocked offline, leaving millions of people without power, heat, and water for days. Advertisement The extreme weather itself was an anomaly, caused by a particularly nasty blast of chilly Arctic air from the polar vortex. In many ways, there couldn’t have been a worse part of the country f...

The problems in Texas this week were not the state’s current mix of energy resources, but that fact the state’s energy resources were not prepared to perform in the low temperatures seen. Americans must be willing to plan and invest to better confront such crises in the future.

Could an electrical grid failure happen in Ohio? Could an electrical grid failure happen in Ohio? and last updated 2021-02-20 23:18:51-05 Freezing cold weather has been wreaking havoc in Texas. Cold temperatures crippled their electrical grid, leaving millions of people without power for multiple days and causing pipes to freeze and burst, flooding homes. So the question is, are Ohioans protected from a similar crisis happening here? Grant Goodrich, the executive director of the Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve University, said its unlikely. He said, in Texas, most people ...

The Texas power outage, which has left millions without power, happened for a multitude of reasons. But it’s important to understand how those causes are connected, because they’ll continue to be relevant as the state experiences more extreme weather events. It all starts with the winter storm that began on 13 February, which brought some of the coldest weather the state has experienced since 1989. Normally the power grid can meet the energy...

The only thing major blackouts have in common is that customers suffer. Author: Betsy Kling Updated: 10:57 PM EST February 19, 2021 CLEVELAND — Funny thing about electricity: We all need it, but nobody understands it. Nearly every facet of our life relies upon power that we as consumer have no control over. Moving at about 1,000 miles per second, electricity moves from power plants through high voltage transmission lines that feed a network of stations that then distribute it to individual customers. Operators in control rooms across the country are constantl...