electricity

Lights out!

The City of Hallettsville underwent a power outage last Thursday, April 22.The power outage lasted just over two hours and impacted customers including the Hallettsville Tribune Herald Office.The outage was caused by damage to the City’s electrical infrastructure, which was traced back to a third...

ERCOT’s interim chief, a New Yorker, says he’d never seen heat like this

Amid some of the hottest days on record and, quite possibly, the longest span of days Texans have suffered through such extreme heat, the agency overseeing the state’s power grid once again asked Texans to chill out on their power usage for the second time last week.