ERCOT urges Texans to cut power use as grid threatened for first time since 2021 blackout

ERCOT urges Texans to cut power use as grid threatened for first time since 2021 blackout

Texas’ power grid manager on Thursday again asked residents to cut their electricity use as the state endures another stretch of sizzling summer heat. The request carried fresh urgency, coming the day after the system was pushed to the brink of outages for the first time since a deadly winter blackout in 2021. The request by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which serves most of the state’s 30 million residents, came a day after low ene…

Texas just got closer to blackouts than it has since 2021. What happened?

ERCOT went into emergency operations Wednesday night for the first time since 2021. It's still unclear what caused the power grid to get so close to rolling blackouts so quickly.