Four Texas Oil Refineries Lose Power overnight

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"PNM Resources whose subsidiary Texas New Mexico Power supplies Texas City, said there were four faults on power lines between 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. local time. The utility said the faults all occurred on the customer side of the lines, meaning it was a failure of customer owned and operated equipment, not the power company." -- [link to www.msnbc.msn.com]

It does seem odd that four separate facilities lose power in the span of less than six hours and the electric company claims that the problem is not on their own end.