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Power and Grids

Grid regulators say last winter’s storms were survived, not solved

Peak generator outages across the Eastern and Texas interconnections hit 68,169 megawatts on January 26, 2026, almost the same as the 71,022 megawatts recorded in the January 2025 Arctic outbreak. No utility had to shed load manually. Those two facts, from the joint review that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric […]