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AirborneRodent t1_j1h15jw wrote

Reply to comment by drecklia in Factbox: About 1.2 million without power in United States from winter storms by Smithy2232

Texas became a laughingstock after the power grid failed last year, so they put a lot of effort into making sure it didn't happen again. The high winds have also been very helpful at keeping the grid supplied, since we have so many wind farms across the state. On the flipside, those high winds are responsible for the outages we do have - lots of downed power lines from fallen tree branches over the last day.

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Fenrils t1_j1hq430 wrote

>so they put a lot of effort into making sure it didn't happen again.

They literally did not. They did some minimal maintenance on some old infrastructure that needed updating anyway but in terms of winterization, virtually none was performed. If we get another storm like last time, the power is gonna fail again. It has nothing to do with green energy either, the issue last time and still today is the natural gas lines freezing. Once they freeze, everyone is fucked.

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user-name-1985 t1_j1huac4 wrote

Has Texas connected to the national power grid yet?

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Fenrils t1_j1hy9hb wrote

Nope because freedom and uh... Higher costs with less stable infrastructure? Idk, lost my train of thought there for a second.

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