Texans not very confident in power grid's ability to avoid blackouts, poll shows

When it comes to avoiding energy blackouts this summer, few Texas voters are very confident the electric grid is prepared, according to a new poll from The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler taken in early August.

Only 15% of registered voters surveyed said they had a great deal of confidence that the grid is prepared to avoid blackouts in their community. Half of those surveyed had either no confidence or not too much confidence that the grid is prepared.

Nearly a third of those surveyed — 31% — had a fair amount of confidence while 4% said they didn’t know.

In July, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas asked Texans to conserve energy after projecting an energy shortage, and while ERCOT said it did not expect systemwide outages, the call brought the state’s fraught relationship with its power grid to the forefront as Texans saw continuous triple-digit temperatures.

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