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Grid manager: Outages spared Texas bigger disaster

AP, 18 Feb 2021

The CEO of the nonprofit group that manages the flow of electric power in Texas says rolling outages were meant to spare the state from a longer-lasting catastrophic blackout. (Feb. 17)

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