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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...

Storms caused blackouts in Oregon and Texas, but their power grids are vastly different What looks like the same crisis caused by unprecedented winter weather in two states actually brought down large swaths of two very different power grids. Author: Maggie Vespa Updated: 6:53 PM PST February 22, 2021 PORTLAND, Ore. — Days after a historic snowstorm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of Oregon households, a second system did the same to millions in Texas. A week later, thousands in each state are still going without electricity. What looks like the sa...

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.

Utah's electrical grid considered more resilient against severe weather Repair crews have been hard at work restoring power to the entire state of Texas, but a Utah professor says our state is able to resist a statewide outage like this because of some differences and last updated 2021-02-23 12:44:37-05 Texans have been struggling with power outages after mother nature pushed a powerful winter storm in the state's direction in mid-February. This kind of severe weather is something Utah is all too familiar with, but even though we deal with outages when severe weather hits, they don't tend to ...

The West Texas city was spared the worst effects of this week’s storms, thanks to its preparations in the wake of a devastating 2011 deep freeze.