<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/stories/2025/august/08052025-grid-reliability.php" dsn="news"><featured/><top-stories/><homepage/><pubDate>08/05/2025 10:18:46 AM</pubDate><title>UH Researchers See Future Power Problems in Texas</title><subtitle>New White Paper Warns the State’s Power Grid Faces Growing Strains</subtitle><description>Power demand is quickly increasing across Texas, and new University of Houston research suggests the state’s power grid, in its current form, is not up to the challenge.</description><author>Jonathan Adams</author><author-email>jadams23@central.uh.edu</author-email><author-phone>713-743-8960</author-phone><image><img src="/news-events/images/getty-images-grid.jpg" alt="Electricity towers"/></image><categories>Research,Science[COMMA] Energy &amp; Innovation</categories><newsrooms/><newsroom-tags/></item>