Mose Buchele
Senior Correspondent, Energy & EnvironmentMose Buchele focuses on energy and environmental reporting at KUT. He has been on staff at KUT since 2009, covering local and state issues. Mose has also worked as a blogger on politics and an education reporter at his hometown paper in Western Massachusetts. He holds master's degrees in Latin American Studies and Journalism from UT Austin. You can email him at mbuchele@kut.org.
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When compared with other regional grids, it appears Texas issues more requests for consumers to conserve energy. The recent freeze reignited frustrations over the requests and the grid operators.
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The grid's operator has requested that Texans conserve energy to maintain supply during the extreme cold. Many people are having flashbacks to the blackouts in 2021.
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The grid operator said it's expecting electricity supply to be tight and asked Texans to conserve energy between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m.
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Texas grid operators say reserve energy could be in short supply on the Texas grid as frigid weather drives up demand.
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Ever since 2021, when a massive winter storm crashed the state’s energy system and left millions without power for days, forecasts like this have provoked deep anxiety in Texas.
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Researchers have created a virtual campus to better understand how increasing warm weather and energy use will impact UT's energy grid.
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Dr. Vivek Goswami, a cardiologist with the Austin Heart Hospital, says doctors used to blame cold weather on the uptick in heart-related ER visits. But research has pointed to other factors.
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Un panel de jueces ha dicho que las grandes compañías eléctricas no pueden ser consideradas responsables por no suministrar electricidad durante el apagón de 2021. La razón es el mercado energético desregulado de Texas.
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A panel of judges has said that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the 2021 blackout. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market.
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Dos enormes tormentas invernales han puesto al descubierto la creciente vulnerabilidad de las redes eléctricas estadounidenses, y se acaba el tiempo para reducir el riesgo este año.