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After the cold snap of 7,000 megawatts worth of power plants shut down, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the network operator, the second most populous state behind California, declared an energy emergency.

ERCOT has asked the state energy suppliers to around 4,000 megawatts worth of power demand in the early hours of the day is clear - right around 2.9 million households.

The operator lowered the interview that about 3,000 MW of mid-morning, a few generations, since the operation again.

"We expect that rolling outages to continue until an appropriate amount of production back online," ERCOT said in a statement. "We continue to appeal to saving energy."

Blackouts and left houses without heating up the dark for one hour, caused a number of schools and businesses to close and put a few traffic snarls traffic lights stopped working.

There was no sign of major failure in a large refinery row "Houston complex, about 13 percent of U.S. refining capacity covers.