Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) A Texas woman filed a class-action lawsuit this week Billion 1 billion In the loss against Gridi, A Texas electricity retailer that claims to have engaged in illegal pricing in the meantime Extensive outage Which swept across the state last week. Houston resident Lisa Khuri …
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Millions of Texans remained without electricity Wednesday morning, although temperatures in most parts of the state rose above freezing, potentially signaling the state’s power grid service could make significant progress to the restored service. Texas’ pockets plunged into widespread power outage on their third day amid extended winter storms, as …
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