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 # Four Ways Winter Weather Is Causing Energy Supply Problems

 

##### Posted by Patrick J. Kiger

 

 

 Jan 22, 2014 4:30 PM ET

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[Four Ways Winter Weather Is Causing Energy Supply Problems](http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/22/four-ways-winter-weather-is-causing-energy-supply-problems/)

A massive winter storm hit much of the U.S. Tuesday, dumping heavy snowfall along the East Coast and sending temperatures plunging from 15 to 30 degrees below normal from the Mid-Atlantic region to the upper Midwest.

But in addition to causing school closings and disrupting highway traffic, frigid winter weather has far-reaching effects on energy production and distribution—from slowing oil and gas wells and refineries to briefly shutting down a nuclear power plant in the Midwest because of ice.

Read more about the "[Four Ways Winter Weather Is Causing Energy Supply Problems](http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/22/four-ways-winter-weather-is-causing-energy-supply-problems/)" on [The Great Energy Challenge Energy Blog](http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/).



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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