Texas Power Grid Braces for Freeze That Imperils Fuel Supply
- Temperatures forecast to crash across major natural gas region
- Winter readiness of wells, power plants to be challenged again
Power lines run through a neighborhood in Austin, Texas.
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The Texas power grid and the natural gas drillers, wind farms and solar arrays that supply it are facing their second test in less than a month as subzero weather bears down on the Lone Star state.
Temperatures in wide swaths of the second-largest U.S. state are forecast to plunge to well below normal in coming days, according to the National Weather Service.