Officials with the state’s [Texas] power grid declared an electrical emergency and imposed a rolling blackout across the state in order to manage power demands.

In a voice recorded message to the media, Dottie Roark, spokeswoman for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, said that the state had lost approximately 7,000 megawatts of generating capacity overnight.


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