“Excellent 30 minute video explaining the real story behind the Texas Power blackout”
A summary would be nice ...
The immediate issue was ERCOT asleep at the wheel, not making decision to do some short limited rolling blackouts at the beginning, then things snowballed until it was almost too late by the time they started the blackouts and it caused additional problems that couldn’t be easily remedied at that point. It was kind of a vicious cycle they allowed themselves to get into. He explains the power generation science of it what was happening.
The long term issue of why they even were in that position is this - (sorry if this isn’t a great summary but I need to leave so this is quick).
Federal “green subsidies” have distorted the energy production marketplace so that unreliable “green” energy production (Solar &wind – which both only produce in perfect conditions) have and are pushing out reliable energy production (natural gas, coal, nuclear). Reliable energy now can barely compete against the other subsidized forms which are not adequate nor are they safe & reliable.
So now in Texas and in many parts of the US there is not enough reliable energy to supply in emergency situations like this or indeed very soon to even keep up with normal energy demand in our growing economy.