5 things to know about potential causes of Texas's power crisis

A select committee of the Texas state Senate lambasted executives from a Houston-area power company Monday over the utility’s preparation for Hurricane Beryl, which left millions of Texas residents without power for days after the storm.

In the aftermath of the crisis, which has resurfaced concerns over the stability of Texas’s grid amid the more violent weather caused by a heating climate, the Republican-dominated panel sought to pin the Houston outages on unique failures by CenterPoint, Texas’s biggest utility.