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Texas Power Conservation Alert Raises Alarm Across Texas
Just two months after massive power outages shut down the state, the Texas Electric Reliability Council issued an alert Tuesday afternoon asking Texans to conserve electricity over concerns there might not be enough power to meet demand.
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NBC 5 Investigates How Colder States Avoid Winter Blackouts
What can Texas learn from cold-weather states?
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What can Texas learn from cold-weather states?
NBC 5 Investigates: What Texas Could Learn From Colder States to Prevent Blackouts
They live through brutal winters, year after year. But the lights stay on. NBC 5 investigates what Texas can learn from colder states to prevent future disasters.
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Texas power generation companies will have to better prepare for extreme weather under bills Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law
Senate Bills 2 and 3 are aimed at overhauling the state’s power grid after the devastating winter storm in February and the widespread power outages that followed.
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Senate Bills 2 and 3 are aimed at overhauling the state’s power grid after the devastating winter storm in February and the widespread power outages that followed.
Texas power generation companies will have to better prepare for extreme weather under bills Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law
Senate Bills 2 and 3 are aimed at overhauling the state’s power grid after the devastating winter storm in February and the widespread power outages that followed.
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NBC 5 Investigates: Why ERCOT's Winter Forecasting Miss May Spell Summer Trouble
NBC 5 Investigates shows how ERCOT underestimated the amount of power Texans would need in the winter and how that could spell trouble this summer.
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Threat of more blackouts may erode reliability claims for fossil energy
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Exclusive: Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm
Power companies won't disclose who was protected from blackouts—but smart meters may be leaking insights.
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Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm
Power companies won't disclose who was protected from blackouts—but smart meters may be leaking insights.
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Texans not expected to lose power through the rest of the summer, regulators say
The state’s electricity regulators said they’re taking steps to assure a skeptical public that the power won’t go out again if Texas experiences extreme weather this summer.
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Austin's KXAN’s Maggie Glynn sat down with Texas PUC Chairman Peter Lake to see if our power grid is ready for winter.
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Q&A: How does Texas’ power grid fare as we head into the winter months?
Texas power generators have less than a month to weatherize their equipment. It’s part of several mandates lawmakers passed during the 87th Regular Session in the spring, in response to the F…
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You're correct. I should have said mostly state wide. I think that El Paso was also on another grid.
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The Texas Electric Grid Failure Was a Warm-up
One year after the deadly blackout, officials have done little to prevent the next one—which could be far worse.
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One year after the deadly blackout, officials have done little to prevent the next one—which could be far worse.
The Texas Electric Grid Failure Was a Warm-up
One year after the deadly blackout, Texas officials have done little to prevent the next one—which could be far worse.
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Extreme heat in June offers a test and a warning for the Texas grid
The weather forecasted for much of Texas this week will likely drive energy use to new highs and test the resilience of the state’s electric grid ahead of what’s expected to be a scorching summer.
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US power grid faces possible shortages this summer due to green energy push, watchdog says
The report also said that Texas may be at risk of not having enough natural gas or coal-fired plants.
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According to the report, nine power grids were identified, including New England and every state west of Ohio, that are at risk of power outages in the coming summer months.
The report also said that Texas may be at risk of not having enough "dispatchable generation" such as natural gas- or coal-fired plants to compensate for the possible low wind conditions.