As temperatures this weekend made it feel like mid-summer, the group in charge of the state's power grid asked Texans to ease up on electricity use.
It sent the notice after six power plants unexpectedly went down. As of Saturday, five of those power facilities were back online.So far, there have been no blackouts, but it does leave Texans asking, how prepared are we?
"I think we will get through this weekend, but the summer is going to depend on the weather," said Daniel Cohen, Rice University energy expert. "It’s going to be a question of, will the record hot days in the spring, is that what’s to come for an unusually hot summer? Then we could have serious problems in Texas."
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