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Reply (Shutterstock) UPPER ST. CLAIR, PA — The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink. The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse. Customers in Pennsylvania state experienced 4.15 hours without power in 201...

Reply (Shutterstock) YARDLEY, PA — The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink. The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse. Customers in Pennsylvania state experienced 4.15 hours without power in 2019 — 0....

Reply (Shutterstock) PITTSBURGH, PA — The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink. The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse. Customers in Pennsylvania state experienced 4.15 hours without power in 2019 —...

Five board members of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas — the entity that manages and operates the electricity grid that covers much of Texas — will resign on Wednesday, according to a notice to the Public Utility Commission. A sixth has withdrawn his application to the board.All six live ou...

Sally Talberg, board chair, Peter Cramton, vice chairman, Terry Bulger, the chairman of finance and audit, and Raymond Hepper, the human resources and governance committee chairman, will resign at the end of the ERCOT board meeting Wednesday.