How ‘smart technology’ could help avoid lengthy winter power outages

Investigative Summary:
A year after a winter storm led to a cascading power failure that left millions of Texans in the dark and cold, KXAN investigators dug into research on how modernizing and digitizing the power grid — and your household appliances — could help prevent outages during future winter storms.EXPLORE PART 1: Whose power gets shut off during winter storms — and for how long?
AUSTIN (KXAN) — As power generators, utility providers and state leaders evaluate