This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The winter storm exposed the grid’s real weakness: lots of old poles on Jan 28, 2026.

A powerful winter storm descending on Texas on Friday will be one of the toughest tests of the state’s electric grid since ...

Eolian's 400-megawatt battery site will alleviate transmission congestion near San Antonio, boosting grid reliability and ...

Rochester Public Utilities (RPU) issued energy conservation alerts this weekend as Winter Storm Fern brought extreme cold ...

The steady accumulation of snow and freezing rain and a rise in demand for electricity can cause problems long after the sky ...

Officials don't expect widespread power outages, though Texans could still see local power outages if ice or falling tree ...

Texas state and local officials say they’re better prepared now than they were five years ago when Winter Storm Uri blanketed ...

Memories of the deadly 2021 weather event linger even as the state now appears far better prepared.

Winter Storm Uri nearly bankrupted Rayburn Electric Cooperative. Five years later, the Texas co-op shares how the crisis ...

Many of us became preppers, in a way, after the 2021 freeze. Here, a Texan well-versed in disaster preparedness tells us how to hunker down this weekend.

Can the Texas power grid hold up to another major winter storm? Grid managers at the Electric Reliability Council of ...

The extreme weather knocked out power across the South — and cold temperature will strain the power network for a week.