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Texas Comes Close to Rolling Blackouts

by Ari Auber
August 4, 2011
9 Comments

After more triple-digit temperatures and continued skyrocketing power demand, the Texas electric grid operator warned of a "high probability" of rolling blackouts, although as of 5 p.m. the danger appeared to have abated. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the grid operator, reached step two of its emergency procedures almost two hours before 4 p.m., the hour of peak energy use, and cut power to some industrial customers that have agreed in advance to lose power in emergencies.

Today is the fourth day in a row that ERCOT has urged residents and businesses across Texas to conserve the ...

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Comments (9)

August 4, 2011 @ 9:57 p.m.

Kevin W. Kaler via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I conserve energy.
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August 4, 2011 @ 10:03 p.m.

Tim Tukaram Spotswood via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Same story every year. Make more energy, charge me more for it, no problem.
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August 4, 2011 @ 10:05 p.m.

David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook

In before someone blames Obama and the EPA, etc etc.
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August 4, 2011 @ 10:07 p.m.

Carolyn Moon via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Hasn't happened since February
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August 4, 2011 @ 10:08 p.m.

Mark Paulson via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Rick Perry killed STNP's expansion and then tried to build 10 coal plants, but right on David, they will blame anything on Obama
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August 4, 2011 @ 10:42 p.m.

Angela Treu via Texas Tribune on Facebook

We had 90 Sec. of Rolling blackouts in north texas
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August 5, 2011 @ 6:11 a.m.

Directv HD via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Like my page!
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August 5, 2011 @ 6:42 a.m.

BurningFeet

Gee, where is Joe Barton now? I don't hear him screaming for the right to sit in darkness with his incandescent energy hog light bulbs. Seems a bit of conservation suddenly makes sense.
August 5, 2011 @ 7:09 a.m.

Elmo

I want to thank Ex Senator David Sibley from Waco for passing deregulation and Rick Perry for signing it into law. Sibley then went to work as a lobyist for the people who benefited from the bill passage. Sible is now very wealthy. We now pay the highest rates and electricity is shot something they siad would not happen. Also thanks goes to TXU for closing plants down with nothing replacing them