Texas Airlifts Water With Ice Covering Roads: Energy Update
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(Bloomberg) The Texas power grid has returned to normal operations as a historic cold blast eases, but the impact of the deep freeze is still leaving towns without water, homes yet to be reconnected to electricity supplies and highways chocked with ice and snow.
Texas emergency officials are airlifting pallets of bottled water to cities and towns where water supplies were knocked out or disrupted by this week’s widespread power failures. About 1,000 of the state’s 7,000 local water utilities were offline or unable to ensure supplies were fit for human consumption as of Friday afternoon. More than 140,000 homes and businesses were still in the dark.
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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
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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.
Texas Power Crisis Is Getting Worse With Millions Left in Dark
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