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The board that oversees ERCOT held an urgent meeting Wednesday morning to discuss the winter storm that crippled most of Texas last week. They offered apologies for the devastation the power outages have caused and pledged to gather the facts to help lawmakers determine how to prevent it from ever happening again. ERCOT’s CEO, Bill …

  5:13 PM / February 19, 2021 Texas governor says about 165,000 households don’t have power Texas Governor Greg Abbott said about 165,000 households across the state don’t have electricity because of downed power lines or because residences need to be manually reconnected to the power system. “There are no longer any residential power outages …

Politicians and power industry officials are blaming each other for the state’s outages, but they are not yet able to say how long this will last. Texas has its own power grid, which is managed by state and semi-private entities. Those same groups are now playing the blame game, trying to find how the state …

A large and dangerous winter storm is targeting millions of people in the Midwest, and it’s headed for the Northeast. Heavy snow and strong winds are blowing across the Dakotas, Iowa and parts of Minnesota as it moves eastward. Crews worked through the night to clear roads from Minnesota to Illinois that were blanketed with …