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NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) - The Electric Reliability Council of Texas is asking people to voluntarily reduce electricity use due to extreme temperatures and forecasted record demand. The Voluntary Conservation Notice is in effect Tuesday, June 20 from 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. CT. The CBS News Texas First Alert Weather Team has also issued Weather Alerts for June 20 - 21. An excessive heat warning

Firefighters in Pittsburgh were battling a large fire along the Ohio River on Monday night after an explosion started the blaze near a power plant on Brunot Island, according to multiple local media reports. The explosion and fire are the results of a power reactor at a Duquesne Light Company power station that “catastrophically failed," ABC News’ Pittsburgh affiliate WTAE reported. With no

Volkswagen AG will start testing its autonomous vehicles on public roads for the first time this month in Austin, Texas.

Volkswagen XE:VOW said Thursday the test program will start with two vehicles this July, and expand to a fleet of 10 ID Buzz electric vans by the end of this year. The program plans to broaden its scope in Austin over the next three years, and eventually expand to at

America’s fragmented electric grid, which was largely built to accommodate coal and gas plants, is becoming a major obstacle to efforts to fight climate change.

Tapping into the nation’s vast supplies of wind and solar energy would be one of the cheapest ways to cut the emissions that are dangerously heating the planet, studies have found. That would mean building thousands of wind