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Per July report, overall US oil production increased. How did the individual states perform? Will peak demand pundits' observations be correct? Find out.

Angeles this morning. the good news, the rolling blackouts avoided, the bad news, sounds like it was really close. >> yeah, john, we narrowly avoided these planned rolling blackouts. that's because of how much intense pressure was on the state energy grid. power plants like this one, just on overdrive, and tuesday did see the highest peak demand of energy in state history. now, energy officials did issue an alert level three, the last level before those planned rollouts -- blackouts. and we started to get these push alerts on our phones. and something must have worked because let me show you t...

Alert level three. just after 5:00 p.m. local time. that's the last level before those intended rolling blackouts would have occurred. now, if you take a look at this graph of usage last night, this really shows how people responded to this because they got the push alerts, you see the alert went out and 30 minutes later, 5:50 p.m. pacific time, you see the usage really drop there. so people understood the danger of the potential rolling blackouts. that being said, tuesday did see the highest peak demand in california history. so that just goes to show the intensity of this record-breaking eve...

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Stop. and 300,000 customers are without power. nearly half of them in hard-hit tennessee. and tens of thousands here in texas, a state still on-edge, after last year's power grid catastrophe that killed 250 people. officials here say the only outages today are due to lines down, not supply. >> the power grid is performing very well at this time. there's plenty of power available at this time. >> reporter: but emergency shelters are set up just in case. >> tonight, the temperatures are really going to drop. >> reporter: snowplow drivers are working 12-hour shifts, asking the public for help. >>...