Texas electricity struggles to keep up with its population explosionAs fireworks bring in July alongside a record-setting heat wave, new highs for Texas power usage forebode rol l ing brownouts throughout Bastrop County.The core deregulated power grid of Texas, the same that provides Bastrop County with its electricity, is employing strategically scheduled absences of electricity throughout the state to try and combat the higher demand for power. These rolling brownouts will cut electricity in hour-long intervals, bouncing back and forth between neighborhoods for several hours.“When your population goes up 24%, it scares me.”— Devon Bass, managing partner of Vault Electricity ...