When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and fingerpointing can make it difficult to understand what really ...

Essential workers look back at the historic winter storm that crippled the state of Texas in February 2021.

The Texas power grid is expected to hold up through most weather conditions this winter, though the emerging data center boom ...

Power outages and frigid temperatures left Texas reeling. Frigid winter weather across the U.S. hit Texas particularly hard, at one point leaving nearly 3 million people without power and many others ...

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The city invested in preparing infrastructure for cold after a 2011 storm. One Texas city had a different experience from much of the state last week, with very few power outages during the extreme ...

After its natural gas supply dropped sharply during Winter Storm Uri, the Midlothian Power Plant, pictured here, had to reduce electricity generation. (Gabriel C. Pérez/KUT) State oil and gas ...

From Winter Storm Blair to Hurricane Beryl in Texas and the more recent Connecticut thunderstorms, power outages from severe weather events have become an increasingly common reality across the United ...