December 27, 2022 archive

Attacks on nation’s power grids on the increase

  Back in the “day”, an attack on the power system meant someone had been shooting at electrical line insulators on a rural county road. These days, it’s someone shooting up transformer stations and it’s growing worse, raising questions whether it might be an organized terrorism effort. Here’s how The Hill reported the most recent …

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** The National Weather Service has warned that a “reinforcing shot” of cold air from Canada could cause more snowfall across the Great Plains and Midwest this week, and the eastern half of the country would remain in a deep freeze. In Erie County — which includes Buffalo, N.Y. — the death toll jumped to …

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Completion reports for December 26, 2022

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Permits to drill for December 26, 2022

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ERCOT passes power demand test in cold spell

  After its historic failure in the 2021 winter storm, the Texas power grid held up during this most recent Siberian blast that brought record low temperatures to the region. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, better known as ERCOT, held up to electricity demands reported the Austin American-Statesman. Click here for Austin American-Statesman