Texas power crisis is getting worse with millions left in dark
17 Feb 2021 - 22:21
A man crosses Main Street in downtown during record-breaking temperatures in Houston, U.S., February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Bloomberg
The crisis that has knocked out power for days to millions of homes and businesses in Texas and across the central U.S. is getting worse, with blackouts expected to last until at least Thursday.
Texas’s grid operator cut power to 2.8 million homes Wednesday morning, just hours after restoring service to 700,000 households. Load on the state’s power system fell overnight to the lowest level since early Monday when the agency instituted rolling blackouts to keep the grid from total collapse amid an extremely cold blast. The data signal that the agency has made little to no progress in getting the lights and heat back on.
As the hours ticked by and millions of Texans were plunged into frozen darkness, a more sober reality emerged: The greatest forced blackout in U.S. history, as this event has almost certainly become, was the result of a systemic and multifaceted failure.
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