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Record summer highs prompt rolling blackouts

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Record-setting summer heat drives more of us inside for air-conditioned relief. All that demand is more than the electrical power grid can provide. As a result, it’s likely we will soon face the return of rolling blackouts. “The power grid can only supply so much power,” says Master Electrician Jim Fish with Generator Power Systems. […]

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400,000 reasons to get a standby generator

Power outages may be inconvenient to you, but a long one would be catastrophic for Scott Spencer. His business, Houston Wine Merchant, stocks over $400,000 worth of wine from around the world. Getting a standby power generator made business sense for two important reasons. “We need to keep our temperature about seventy degrees,” Spencer says. […]

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Does cheap power equal rolling blackouts?

Generating power is as much about making a profit as it is about providing a service. That’s the bottom-line result of deregulation. So, what happens when making power doesn’t generate enough profit to pay for new power plants? Rolling blackouts. Get ready, there are more to come.

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Cold and in the dark? You’re not alone.

Nearly three-quarters of a million Houstonians were in the dark due to Groundhog Day 2011 blackouts without a hurricane in sight. The culprit, cold weather, drove power demand to levels the system could simply not meet.

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