Houston Utility Slammed Over Fumbled Response to Beryl Power Outages July 22, 2024 By Mark Chediak, Naureen S. Malik and Tope Alake Thousands of people in the Houston area were still without power more than a week after Hurricane Beryl tore through...
Half a Million Will Be Under Houston Outages a Week After Beryl July 12, 2024 By Kevin Crowley and Naureen S. Malik Days after Hurricane Beryl crashed through the city, Houston is still grappling with the aftershocks. Large swaths of America’s fourth-largest...
Houston Storm Hit Most-Stressed US Grid With Power Outages at 140,000 May 22, 2024 By Naureen S. Malik Windows are still falling from skyscrapers in downtown Houston after a historic wind storm whipped through the city last week....
Texas Is Warned of Blackout Risk as Sun Sets This Summer May 16, 2024 By Naureen S. Malik The risk of power failures this summer remains elevated for many parts of North America amid soaring demand and generator...
Texas Got Early Warnings About Costly Grid Policy, Records Show February 7, 2024 By Rachel Adams-Heard and Naureen S. Malik Texas grid officials received repeated warnings last summer that their efforts to shore up the state’s increasingly strained electric grid...
China Is ‘Big Threat’ to Energy Industry, Cybersecurity Official Says March 13, 2023 By Naureen S. Malik The US energy industry must shore up protection against cyberattacks from China, a more pressing concern than attacks from Russia...
Attacks on U.S. Power Grids Rose to All-Time High in 2022 February 1, 2023 By Naureen S. Malik Attacks on US power grids rose to an all-time high last year, further straining the sprawling and aging network. The...
In Texas’s Black-Swan Blackout, Everything Went Wrong at Once February 17, 2021 By Rachel Adams-Heard, Naureen S. Malik and Brian Eckhouse The finger-pointing began immediately: It was the frozen wind turbines that foolishly replaced traditional sources. No, fossil fuels were at...
Freeze Slams Texas; Power Could Be Out for Days February 16, 2021 By Joe Carroll and Naureen S. Malik The deep freeze that has forced the shutdown of U.S. refineries, oil wells and meat plants, disrupted shipments of soybeans...
Aging Infrastructure Poses Risks for Communities Relying on Natural Gas October 15, 2018 By Naureen S. Malik The kind of dramatic scenes that played out in suburban Massachusetts last month following a series of explosions and fires...