The Texas electric grid failed because George W. Bush’s “deregulation” scheme placed customers who think that virtue signaling is morally superior to preserving human life in charge of the service reliability of customers who’s top priority is service reliability.
Customers who want federally-subsidized unreliable service should be forced off the grid.
I’m not sure that the Texas Grid would have survived the
situation without major outages if it had been connected to
other grids. With the freezing, lines down, substations off
line, plants shut in, etc. etc.there still would have been
major problems. JMO
To a degree it was like a major hurricane and its destruction
along the Gulf Coast and inland where it comes ashore. No
power for days until the system can be rebuilt, etc.