Texas power grid now working but was 'seconds or minutes' from catastrophic collapse, official says
AUSTIN — Widespread rolling blackouts ceased on Friday in Texas, but days ago the state was "seconds or minutes" away from the risk of its electric grid catastrophically failing as a record-breaking winter storm barreled across the state, according to the top manager of the grid.
Major generation units began failing in rapid succession as Sunday night rolled into Monday morning while demand skyrocketed, Bill Magness, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council, said in a news briefing Thursday.
The controlled outages that have ravaged the state were the only way to avert an even more dire blackout in Texas, Magness said.
"One of the reasons operators have to (shut down parts of the grid) is if they say, 'You know, let's wait another minute to see what happens.' What happens the next minute might be three big units come off, and then you're sunk.
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