| Just about every sentence in your comment is wrong: > First, Texas has its own independent grid as a matter of physics. Except that every state directly north of Texas is either on the East or West interconnects. ERCOT having its own grid is solely a matter of political desire. > One top of that reduced capacity, not all equipment is prepared for ice storms because it doesn't really happen here. Except a very similar event happened in 2011, and a specific set of recommendations were made by FERC to winterize power producers, and the recommendations were promptly ignored. Better discussion on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/ll2slh/texas_failed... > And finally, the wind farms are not handling the ice well Yes, this is true, but this is almost insignificant. The grid is already designed to handle windless days: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/frozen-wi... |