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Tens of thousands of residents and small businesses sought damages from power generators after losing electricity during the storm that resulted in billions in losses and 246 deaths.

Sen. Casey Murdock, R-Felt, authored Senate Bill 1929, which passed the Senate Committee on Energy on Thursday.

A company is repurposing the batteries to store electricity and sell it to the grid when power from wind and solar dwindles.

Some local officials worry solar could take a big bite out of agricultural land. So far, it has amounted to less than 1%, trade group says.

A damaged Xcel pole owned sparked the Smokehouse Creek fire, the largest in state history.

Texans from Waco to Harlingen are raising concerns over how much energy and water data centers are poised to use. Local officials, some enticed by a tax boon, say they have little power to stop the rush.

The Unified Government and the BPU are in discussions with three proposed data center projects code-named Project Red Wolf, Project Yardbird and Project Linda. Officials insist the projects won't increase utility bills for other ratepayers, but similar promises elsewhere have been proven false.

Utility companies, Colorado legislators and others are working to balance the impacts of a growing data center industry

Scattered outages have been reported as of Monday, but there are no signs of the widespread generation failures that crippled the grid nearly five years ago.

Subfreezing temperatures are expected by Friday as arctic air moves into Texas, with some areas possibly staying below freezing through Monday before warming into the lower 40s on Tuesday.