(Natural News) Almost everything in a modern home requires electricity, like food prep, heating, entertainment and communication. Before SHTF and you lose power for a week or longer, make sure you have enough supplies for summer and winter. (h/t to FoodStorageMoms.com) What to stock up on for a winter power outage On a regular day, short-term power […]

(Natural News) Two months ago, millions of Texans shivered under blankets as a historic winter storm drove the state’s power grid to the brink of collapse. Now, Caprock Renewables, a utility-scale developer based in Austin, Texas, is planning to raise equity for a big $500-million portfolio of solar projects in Texas, according to a recent report from Bloomberg. […]

(Natural News) The Texas Senate has passed a bill requiring the winterization of all of the state’s electricity-generating infrastructure. The bill also promised to completely overhaul Texas’ electricity market. This bill was made to prevent the historic blackouts that swept through the state during the February cold snap from happening again. Nearly half of Texas’ power-plant […]

(Natural News) Chinese-owned bitcoin farms have been blamed for the widespread and frequent power outages in major cities across Iran since early January. An official from Kerman province said on Jan. 8 that a bitcoin farm near the town of Rafsanjan was consuming an enormous amount of energy. According to authorities, that was the largest […]

(Natural News) One of the two reactors at the South Texas Nuclear Power Station tripped because the facilities are not winterized to withstand extreme cold weather. Station officials submitted a report on Monday to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission explaining that a disruption in a feedwater pump caused one reactor to shut down automatically. “It’s very rare for weather […]

(Natural News) Millions of Texans were without power for two straight days after a historically cold winter strained the state’s electricity grid, triggering a public health emergency in the country’s second-most populous state. The power outages earlier this week prompted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to open an inquiry into the incident. The agency said […]

(Natural News) An energy expert has called the power emergency in Texas a “system-wide failure” at nearly every level that could have been prevented for a steep price. Jesse Jenkins, assistant professor of energy systems engineering at Princeton University, pointed out that homes in Texas are not designed to deal with very cold weather, which caused customers […]

(Natural News) The wholesale electricity prices in Texas are soaring as the cold snap drastically reduced the state’s power generating capacity. On Monday, spot electricity prices at the West hub surpassed the grid’s $9,000 per megawatt-hour cap, a staggering increase from the average price of $25 per megawatt-hour. The surge is equivalent to the cost of […]

(Natural News) The unrelenting winter season shows no signs of stopping as many states face the most extreme winter storm seen in their regions in decades. Over the weekend, a coast-to-coast winter storm sprawled through much of the United States and put millions of people without power. According to the New York Times, more than 150 million Americans are under some form of winter storm warning. Many […]

(Natural News) Ideally, your neighborhood shouldn’t have any power outages. If it does, they should only last for a couple of hours or one day. But preppers know that things often go wrong when you least expect them to and that you should always be prepared. Make sure you can survive a long-term power outage by […]