Senate investigates winter storm blackouts

  • Magness said his agency forecast a severe situation that would likely require rolling outages, but they did not anticipate the loss of so much generation capacity. File photo
    Magness said his agency forecast a severe situation that would likely require rolling outages, but they did not anticipate the loss of so much generation capacity. File photo
A week after a brutally cold winter storm left millions in the state without power and water for days, the Senate Business and Commerce Committee began the process of figuring out what happened and how to prevent it from happening again. By early morning on February 15, nearly half of Texas’ generation capacity had been knocked out by the storm, and it wouldn’t return to previous levels until…

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