“Poor decision making. They cut themselves off from the rest of the grid, didn’t increase the output of their grid, and now when bad things happen they don’t have the backup.”
They also let leftists convince them that diversifying, by using “green energy” like solar and wind, was a ‘good’ idea. Stupid, really stupid “”thinking””. The leftists are still trying to fundamentally transform Texas into one of their typical s-holes. And it looks like, with their orchestrated invasion by illegals, they just might get their fondest dream to come true.
Diversifying isn’t a bad thing. But you’ve got to remember why you’re diversifying. Part of the goal is flexibility, so if something bad happens to one source of energy you’ve got others to pick up the slack. And that also means you have to have ENOUGH of those others TO pick up the slack. That’s one of the problems Texas keeps running into, they don’t have enough overage in their production capacity, so when one source goes down the increased demands on the other sources causes cascading failure and they lose a whole section.