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Residents of an apartment building in South Austin ate their meals Thursday in the parking lot after losing power. Their unit lost power after a nearby fire. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune

Texas power outages: Grid operators say forced outages no longer necessary and tell customers to continue to conserve energy

As Texas faced record-low temperatures this February and snow and ice made roads impassable, the state’s electric grid operator lost control of the power s

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Daily Record photo by Gerald Castillo

SNOW AWAY

Snow fell across San Marcos on Thursday as the final weather event of this winter storm blew through.

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As natural gas fired plants, utility scale wind power and coal plants tripped offline due to the extreme cold brought by the winter storm, the amount of power supplied to the grid to be distributed across the state fell rapidly. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune

Texas was "seconds and minutes" away from catastrophic monthslong blackouts, officials say

Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity that operates the gri

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