Texas lawmakers slowed the growth of clean energy, and thereby weakened the electric grid, but experts managed to pass some crucial reforms that should help the next time demand spikes. Politics have ...

Sometimes the weight of ice pulls branches onto electric lines. Other times wind makes a wire spark ... the system over time. Texas had 210 weather-related power outages — more than any other ...

Cowden said he often spots problems with oilfield electrical equipment such as a pumpjack with faulty wiring or a power line lying on dead grass. Credit: Annie Rice for The Texas Tribune Audio ...

Webber is a professor of public affairs and engineering at the University of Texas ... down power lines, also igniting dry grass. The 2018 Paradise fire in California started when a live wire ...

Cowden, 38, spots problems such as a pump jack with faulty wiring or ... role in regulating power lines. And the Public Utility Commission of Texas, which oversees electricity in the state ...

Cowden, 38, spots problems such as a pump jack with faulty wiring or ... role in regulating power lines. And the Public Utility Commission of Texas, which oversees electricity in the state ...

When a spate of wildfires tore across the Texas Panhandle in February and ... including checking on the electric lines that power oil and gas equipment. Unlike the utility companies that run ...