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Sat Feb 5, 2022, 08:12 PM Feb 2022

Experts Warn Texas Power Grid Still Fragile as Abbott Takes Victory Lap

Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott praised the state's power grid for largely staying strong during a winter storm this week, but experts have warned that the system could still be vulnerable to frozen temperatures.

Abbott commended the grid on Saturday for maintaining power to millions of homes during winter storm Landon, which caused temperatures to drop as low as 18 degrees Fahrenheit.

"Texas' Grid Held Up This Time With Enough Extra Capacity To Power 3 Million Homes. At the height of power generation supply, more power was available to serve demand on the grid than was needed at the at peak demand during last year's winter Storm Uri," Abbott tweeted.




Abbott's statement was in reference to an intense winter storm that ravaged the state last year and left more than 200 people dead when the power supply failed and thousands of residents were left without heat for weeks. This week's storm still caused tens of thousands of power outages, but the damage was no where near as disastrous.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/experts-warn-texas-power-grid-still-fragile-as-abbott-takes-victory-lap/ar-AATvZgG
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