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El Paso power outages

Posted inEnvironment

Climate change stresses El Paso area power grid

by Danielle Prokop June 16, 2021July 7, 2022

As El Paso experiences a long-term heat wave with temperatures climbing above 100 degrees during an extreme drought, concerns increase about whether West Texas and parts of New Mexico could be without power at times. El Paso and Hudspeth counties were spared from deadly blackouts following the near-gridwide failure during the 2021 winter freeze, in […]

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