Report: Utilities could have done better

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Vic Kolenc
El Paso Times
August 17, 2011

Aug. 17–Power generators in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, including El Paso Electric, could have done a better job of handling February’s big freeze to avoid power outages that affected several million people.

That’s the thrust of a 357-page report issued Tuesday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corp.

The report also said Southwest power producers need to beef up their cold-weather defenses.

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