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Rolling blackouts ordered for Texas - prepare your stuff
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1019833:MV8xMzQ4MDc5XzIyMjE1MTM0XzJDODIzNjdC] There was an article on the Chron or somewhere stating that the blackouts are caused by a couple of coal power plants that had their cooling pipes freeze/burst. The plants that back them up were having trouble due to low pressure caused by the cold. So they are doing rolling blackouts for ~330,000 people at time to keep the operational plants from being over loaded. [/quote]
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HOUSTON—The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has instructed utilities to begin rotating outages to compensate for a generation shortage due to numerous plant trips that occurred because of the extreme weather.
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