Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo compared it toHurricane Harveyin 2017. "This is very different from Harvey, but the scope of the impact is absolutely equivalent and it's something that is impacting not just the millions of people here in Harris County, but all throughout Texas," Hidalgo sai...
Berylis the latest weather disaster to strike Houston this year after a derecho in May blasted skyscraper windows. It’s in Harris County, which has been the riskiest county in the US for weather since 1980. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick declared a disaster in 121 counties,...
To reveal the disparate impact of managed power outages on vulnerable subpopulations in Harris County, Texas, which encompasses the city of Houston, we collected and analyzed community-scale big data using statistical and trend classification analyses. The results highlight the spatial and temporal ...
To reveal the disparate impact of managed power outages on vulnerable subpopulations in Harris County, Texas, which encompasses the city of Houston, we collected and analyzed community-scale big data using statistical and trend classification analyses. The results highlight the spatial and temporal ...
Anger in Texas over power outages during record winter freeze continued to mount as millions in the energy capital of the U.S. remained shivering.
Abdollah Shafieezadeh, in Nature-Inspired Computing Paradigms in Systems, 2021 2.1 Power distribution network The studied PDN is assumed to be in Harris County, Texas, United States. The system contains 7051 wood utility poles, 115 protective devices, and three substations. More details about this...
About 20,000 people are still in the dark in Harris County, but thousands are still without power in surrounding areas. KXAN’s Tom Miller sat down with The Texas Tribune’s Cassandra Pollock about the state’s response. KXAN Today anchor Miller asked, “More than 180,000 Texas households ...
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates much of the state's power grid, underestimated the surge in demand caused by the unusuallycold weatherand used planned outages to avert an uncontrolled blackout. Some families have been out of power for more than 48 hours. ...
team of researchers introduces a new model that could be used to identify all critical lines in a power grid, so that they can be enhanced to prevent large-scale outages during extreme weather. To demonstrate their approach, they used it to identify the critical lines in the Texas power ...
How this Texas family is trying to stay warm during rolling power outages From CNN's Amanda Jackson Courtesy Ryan Rijken Ryan Rijken said his family in north Texas has been dealing with rolling power outages since around 3 a.m. local time on Monday. ...