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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 805048" data-attributes="member: 12952">Mexico cancels offer to send electricity to Texas&nbsp; (AP) – 1 day agoMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Thursday it was temporarily suspending&nbsp; an offer to provide electricity to Texas to help the U.S. state weather&nbsp; an ice storm that forced rolling blackouts, because of severe cold in&nbsp; Mexico&#039;s own territory.Mexico&#039;s Federal Electricity Commission had said Wednesday it had agreed to transmit 280 megawatts of electricity to Texas.But&nbsp; on Thursday, the commission said it was temporarily suspending the&nbsp; transfer because below-freezing temperatures in northern Mexico have&nbsp; caused some damage to the generating capacity of its own plants, causing&nbsp; some power outages in several parts of Chihuahua state and a reduction&nbsp; of about 3,800 megawatts in generation.The commission also said&nbsp; Mexico needed to ensure there was enough electricity to meet domestic&nbsp; demand, in the face of a severe cold snap that dumped snow on the border&nbsp; city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.Hospitals are supposed to be exempt from the&nbsp; blackouts which hit&nbsp; yesterday, with power company Oncor attributing the outages&nbsp; to a&nbsp; “mistake,” but there were no such mistakes when it came to supplying&nbsp; power&nbsp; to Cowboys Stadium. The&nbsp; government has ensured that the blackouts will not affect Super Bowl venues,&nbsp; a decision that has left residents furious.Street lights and traffic lights have also been&nbsp; hit by the outages,&nbsp; causing traffic build-ups and other hazards more typically&nbsp; associated&nbsp; with a decrepit underdeveloped country, and not with the supposed&nbsp;&nbsp; leading light of the prosperous first world.Sure looks like they will.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 805048, member: 12952"] Mexico cancels offer to send electricity to Texas (AP) – 1 day ago MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Thursday it was temporarily suspending an offer to provide electricity to Texas to help the U.S. state weather an ice storm that forced rolling blackouts, because of severe cold in Mexico's own territory. Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission had said Wednesday it had agreed to transmit 280 megawatts of electricity to Texas. But on Thursday, the commission said it was temporarily suspending the transfer because below-freezing temperatures in northern Mexico have caused some damage to the generating capacity of its own plants, causing some power outages in several parts of Chihuahua state and a reduction of about 3,800 megawatts in generation. The commission also said Mexico needed to ensure there was enough electricity to meet domestic demand, in the face of a severe cold snap that dumped snow on the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. Hospitals are supposed to be exempt from the blackouts which hit yesterday, with power company Oncor attributing the outages to a “mistake,” but there were no such mistakes when it came to supplying power to Cowboys Stadium. The government has ensured that the blackouts will not affect Super Bowl venues, a decision that has left residents furious. Street lights and traffic lights have also been hit by the outages, causing traffic build-ups and other hazards more typically associated with a decrepit underdeveloped country, and not with the supposed leading light of the prosperous first world. [COLOR=blue]Sure looks like they will.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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