{"id":340204,"date":"2026-06-17T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340204\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:10:15","slug":"houston-storm-prep-energy-expert-explains-outages-generators-and-grid-reliability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340204\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston storm prep: Energy expert explains outages, generators, and grid reliability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOCAL NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0June 17, 2026 at 11:47 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 coHFxg kVVZcY\">With severe weather and flooding potential ahead for the Houston area, Sam Luna with BKV Energy joins KPRC 2+ with practical tips for preparing for possible power outages. Plus, learn why outages can be neighborhood-specific, what families should do immediately if the lights go out\u2014especially those caring for medically vulnerable loved ones\u2014and backup power options when generators aren\u2019t available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOCAL NEWS Published:\u00a0June 17, 2026 at 11:47 AM With severe weather and flooding potential ahead for the Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[121341,63357,56,58,57,121340],"class_list":["post-340204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-and-grid-reliability","tag-generators","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-storm-prep-energy-expert-explains-outages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}