But the Winter 2023 power outage is something that's hard to prepare for. IIRC, that's from many frozen tree limbs falling and taking down power lines.
Back to the Summer 2022 power outages in Texas...just like Texas as a state is proud to be grid independent, perhaps Texas homeowners should also try to be more self-reliant with their homes. It takes some homework to make sure solar is best for your situation, and then more homework to make sure you get just enough of each component to optimize your investment without going too far and spending too much fighting the law of diminishing returns. But every homeowner who lives in the south should at least consider it. That is, if it's important to you to insulate your family from the left's warmageddon cult and their stupid energy policies, especially with their policies always jacking up energy costs.
Unfortunately, even red states aren't immune from federal regulations impacting both cost and reliability of power. I see it as my home state of Alabama gives us some protection from federal regulation overreach, then I provide my family more protection from it.
“But the Winter 2023 power outage is something that’s hard to prepare for. IIRC, that’s from many frozen tree limbs falling and taking down power lines.”
It was because of the record cold. Only nuclear and coal will sustain you in a situation like that, but Texas is moving more and more of it’s power generation capacity to solar and wind, which can’t deliver in high demand situations. If Texans want more inconsistent, unreliable, and expensive electricity, then Texas should continue to increasing the percentage of their electricity generation to renewables. It’ll just mean more grid crashes.