A beloved 84-year-old grandmother froze to death overnight on Monday in her northeast Houston apartment without power or water, according to her family. As if that wasn t heartbreaking enough, the family said robbers ransacked their grandmother s apartment nearly a day after she died. Here s their story
In marathon legislative hearings, Texas lawmakers grilled public regulators and energy grid officials about how power outages happened and why Texans weren t given more warnings about the danger.
But policy observers blamed the power system failure on the legislators and state agencies, who they say did not properly heed the warnings of previous storms or account for more extreme weather events warned of by climate scientists. Instead, Texas prioritized the free market.
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February 17, 2021 12:43 IST
The answer lies in the differences between Texas’s independent power grid and the rest of the United States.
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A winter storm dropping snow and ice sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains, prompting a power emergency in Texas a day after conditions cancelled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the U.S. | Photo Credit:
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The answer lies in the differences between Texas’s independent power grid and the rest of the United States.
A brutal winter storm that has left millions without power along the U.S. Gulf Coast and caused power prices to surge has highlighted the differences between Texas’s independent power grid and the rest of the United States.
The Southwest Power Pool, a group of utilities across 14 states, called for rolling blackouts and power outages because the supply of reserve energy had been exhausted.