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Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Why There Are Rolling Blackouts in Texas During 10 Degree Weather Millions in Texas are without power as a deep freeze has hit the area. Specifically, 4.1 million residents The Houston Chronicle was forced to stop producing its print edition after its plant lost power at 2 a.m. In a note to subscribers, the newspaper said that hadn't even happened when the city was battered by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. In a bid to save power, officials in Dallas said their skylines would go dark. Here is something Texans can think about while they sit in the frigid cold without ele...

Nearly half of Texas’ installed wind power generation capacity has been offline because of frozen wind turbines in West Texas, according to Texas grid operators. Wind farms across the state generate up to a combined 25,100 megawatts of energy. But unusually moist winter conditions in West Texas brought on by the weekend’s freezing rain and historically low temperatures have iced many of those wind turbines to a halt. As of Sunday morning, those iced turbines comprise 12,000 megawatts of Texas’ installed wind generation capacity, although those West Texas turbines don’t typically spin...