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Texas Power Grid That Failed in Winter Storm Already Has 1,280 Summer Outages
On 7/7/21 at 9:14 PM EDT
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which was at the center of mass winter blackouts earlier this year, released data revealing 1,280 unplanned summer power outages so far, as of Wednesday.
The list shows fewer than 90 unplanned outages in May, with the number skyrocketing to about 1,100 in June more than a tenfold increase in one month. While the data release shows at which power plant each failure occurred, it does not do much to analyze the data or give the potential causes behind power failures.
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Texas’ electrical grid could fail again, and the woke crowd has taken to Twitter to use the state s power woes to call for a Democrat takeover of the Lone Star State leading the phrase “Turn Texas Blue” to trend on Twitter Tuesday.
ERCOT has issued a Conservation Alert, and Texans are being asked to safely reduce their electric use. ERCOT (@ERCOT ISO) June 14, 2021
The mess all began on Monday afternoon when ERCOT the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which is responsible for supplying power to more than 25 million Texans issued a “conservation alert” and called upon its consumers to reduce their power usage.
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Texas governor addresses power failures
Gov. Greg Abbott signed two bills to address the fatal blackouts caused by severe winter storms.Montinique Monroe/Getty Images
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill to reform the state s power grid and how it s operated in response to the disastrous energy crisis caused by severe winter storms.
More than 4 million people in the state were left without heat and potable water in February after back-to-back storms buried residents in snow and regional temperatures plummeted. It took days for power to be restored, and more than 100 people died because of subsequent blackouts.
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