All posts tagged with power failure
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-(Natural News) For years the lunatic Left has used a combination of “overpopulation,” “global cooling,” “global warming” and “climate change” to alter our modern lifestyles and corral the population into crime-ridden, overcrowded megacities so they can control us. Now, with the most left-wing regime ever to step foot in the White House running Joe Biden’s […]
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-(Natural News) The Texas Senate has passed a bill requiring the winterization of all of the state’s electricity-generating infrastructure. The bill also promised to completely overhaul Texas’ electricity market. This bill was made to prevent the historic blackouts that swept through the state during the February cold snap from happening again. Nearly half of Texas’ power-plant […]
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-(Natural News) The power that icing can cause wind turbines to lose up to 80 percent of their power generation, according to a new study published in the journal Renewable Energy. Lead researcher Hui Hu, a professor of aerospace engineering at Iowa State University, and his team carried out a field study of a Chinese wind farm after a decade of performing lab […]
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-(Natural News) Texas wholesale electricity retailer Griddy Energy is facing a $1 billion class-action lawsuit for allegedly charging customers extremely high prices during the cold snap that left millions without power for days. Lisa Khoury of Mont Belvieu, Chambers County, East Texas, filed the lawsuit in neighboring Harris County on Monday, Feb. 22. She claimed her […]
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-(Natural News) Texans survived a frosty winter storm last week. They might need to survive with frosty foods for the next several days or weeks as grocery store shelves remained empty due to the disrupted supply chain. Food pantries were also running out of donations. The weather crisis also caused heavy damage to the state’s citrus and vegetable crops. Texas’ nightmarish […]
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-(Natural News) On a normal day, plumbers like David Crow would be ecstatic to have their office phones ringing off the hook. But when a cold snap in February caused statewide blackouts, he was overwhelmed as his company received a shocking 2,200 calls in 24 hours. North Texans unprepared for deep freeze and plumbing issues According to […]
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-(Natural News) An energy expert has called the power emergency in Texas a “system-wide failure” at nearly every level that could have been prevented for a steep price. Jesse Jenkins, assistant professor of energy systems engineering at Princeton University, pointed out that homes in Texas are not designed to deal with very cold weather, which caused customers […]
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Texans have filed multiple lawsuits against ERCOT for failing to adequately respond to the cold snap
-(Natural News) The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the main body that manages the state’s primary electric grid, is being sued for ignoring repeated warnings regarding the vulnerabilities in Texas’ power infrastructure. A separate lawsuit involving the death of an 11-year-old, possibly to hypothermia, is accusing ERCOT of gross negligence and putting profits over […] -
-(Natural News) With the worst of the Texas power crisis now behind us, the blame and fingerpointing begins, and while the jury is still out whose actions (or lack thereof) may have led to the deadly and widespread blackouts that shocked Texas this week, Cascend Strategy writes that “in case there was any doubt why the Texas […]
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-(Natural News) At least 12 people have been found dead in the Houston area after statewide power outages left millions without heat in subzero temperatures. Some died from simply from the cold weather while others perished after trying to craft makeshift heating elements that either set the house on fire or sent toxic carbon monoxide […]
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