As Texas slogs through another night with rolling blackouts, Democrats are seizing on the state's electric grid failure to make the case for more federal investment in an improved, clean energy-centric grid nationwide. The rallying cry is emerging from both Congress and the White House in a policy...
AUSTIN, Texas — As millions of Texans remain without power, top leaders are calling for an investigation into the state's energy grid operator. It comes as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas still does not have a timeline for when people will get their power back. In fact, they said more...
As the record cold continues to maintain an icy grip on Texas, many are starting to ask questions about the power outages around the state. Gov. Greg Abbott today declared the reform of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) an emergency item this legislative session. In declaring this...
The crisis gripping Texas' power grid is very different from California's fiery emergencies in recent years, but there's connective tissue there: Electricity grids and infrastructure need to be better equipped for a changing climate or they can have deadly consequences. Driving the news: Texas is...
As debilitating power outages stretch on in Texas, I spoke with New York deputy editor David Wallace-Wells about what the dire situation signifies about our extreme-weather future — political point-scoring aside. Ben Hart: As Texas experiences extremely unusual levels of cold and snow this week,...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced that the state is deploying maximum resources to local officials to respond to severe winter weather and to restore power to its communities. State agencies are sending resources and personnel to help local officials clear roadways and to assist essential...
(Bloomberg) -- The deep freeze that has forced the shutdown of U.S. refineries, oil wells and meat plants, disrupted shipments of soybeans and corn, and is still leaving more than 3 million customers without electricity could continue to keep parts of Texas in the dark for several days. To prevent...
Californians are familiar with large power blackouts, but Texas’ energy grid failures this week are on a much vaster scale, leaving millions of residents shivering. As severe winter weather blanketed much of the U.S. on Monday, an unusual snowstorm pummeled Texas — and caused a serious energy...
Everyone wants clean energy, but reliability is what really counts in a crisis. As renewably sourced energy captures a larger share of the power grid, outages become inevitable. Renewable energy is great, but it just can’t compete with traditional sources. Texas just became the poster child for...
As the world comes to grips with managing the new environment, Westlake-area business Athena Security is trying to help customers meet safety needs with sensors to count the number of people in a building and to detect concealed guns. Athena’s co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Ciabarra...
Some climate-focused technologies could help solve the problem It’s becoming harder for the U.S. to ignore the very real effects of global climate change — and despite the efforts of naysayers, it’s not a push to renewables that’s to blame for the outages sweeping the nation. It’s the country’s...
According to Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble, anyone can successfully start a side hustle and turn it into a thriving business. “You can monetize anything,” Wolfe Herd, who built Bumble into a business now worth over $7 billion, told CNBC Make It in 2019. To start, “figure out what...