shows, and the blackouts have become more frequent amid increasingly extreme weather in recent years.analyzed outage notices filed with the U.S. Department of Energy to calculate the most blackout-prone states. In addition to its rankings, it found there were 64 percent more major power outages across the U.S. from 2011 to 2021 than in the decade from 2000 to 2010.
About 83 percent of all major outages — those impacting at least 50,000 customers — in the past 20 years were attributed to weather. Most of those were in the Southeast, followed by the Midwest and Northeast.Montinique Monroe, Stringer / TNS The Pedernales Electric Cooperative that serves nearly 370,000 customers throughout the Texas Hill Country boasted the best reliability of the state’s major utilities last year; its customers were without power for a total of two and a half hours.CPS Energy bills jump 43% in July to a record $254, but unpaid bills creating headaches for utility
For CPS Energy, 2021 was somewhat of an outlier year. When utilities are assessing reliability, they strip out major weather events to better show how the utility’s reliability during normal day-to-day operations. Even after discounting major weather events such as Winter Storm Uri, CPS customers still experienced 19 percent more time without electricity last year.
Thanks Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans.
The fact that BetoORourke isn’t leading useless GregAbbott_TX by 20 points says something about both Texas and Beto O’Rourke. Feckless
Rebuilding our states' infrastructures will move US forward faster than anything else! Build it up and a better and brighter future will follow!
What have the Trumplicans done for the average American lately? Anyone, anyone. The choice is clear: stay behind and wallow in the mire of Trump's fear&hatred and web of lies OR get up, stand up, VOTE BLUE and MOVE FORWARD!
From the article: It’s little surprise that Texas, the nation’s second-largest and second-most populated state, would see more power outages than most other states
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