Energy & Science
Texas’ Biggest County Explores Exiting Power Grid After Storm
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Harris County, Texas, is exploring ways to draw electricity from other states -- including quitting the power grid that came close to collapse during last month’s historic freeze.
County commissioners voted on Monday to examine if there’s a way to withdraw from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or Ercot, which ordered widespread outages starting on Feb. 15 as surging demand ran headlong into a plunge in available power supplies.