Once Bitten, Power Producers Take Steps to Beat Winter's Freeze
- Polar vortex of 2013-2014 taught producers hard lessons
- Record natural gas inventories seen easing winter supply woes
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During the worst of the winter of 2013-2014, the mid-Atlantic saw widespread power plant outages, Texas was forced to import electricity from Mexico, one generator fired up units closed for years and Southern California ran short of natural gas.
Lesson learned.