How Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster

[rangerrebew]

How Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster

Texas has refused to join interstate electrical grids and railed against energy regulation. Now it’s having to answer to millions of residents who were left without power in last week’s snowstorm.
 

By Clifford Krauss, Manny Fernandez, Ivan Penn and Rick Rojas

    Feb. 21, 2021

HOUSTON — Across the plains of West Texas, the pump jacks that resemble giant bobbing hammers define not just the landscape but the state itself: Texas has been built on the oil-and-gas business for the last 120 years, ever since the discovery of oil on Spindletop Hill near Beaumont in 1901.

Texas, the nation’s leading energy-producing state, seemed like the last place on Earth that could run out of energy.

Then last week, it did.

The crisis could be traced to that other defining Texas trait: independence, both from big government and from the rest of the country. The dominance of the energy industry and the “Republic of Texas” ethos became a devastating liability when energy stopped flowing to millions of Texans who shivered and struggled through a snowstorm that paralyzed much of the state.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/us/texas-electricity-ercot-blackouts.html

[rangerrebew]

The headline should have "through alternative energy" at the end to capture the true why the problem existed.

[thackney]

BS Article.

We had the same problem in 1989 before deregulation, smaller storm so smaller impact.

And the grids around us were under the same storm and on emergency cutbacks; they had no power to spare if we were interconnected.

[Bigun]

BS Article.

We had the same problem in 1989 before deregulation, smaller storm so smaller impact.

And the grids around us were under the same storm and on emergency cutbacks; they had no power to spare if we were interconnected.

If its in the NY Times you KNOW it's BS!