From all I’ve seen, if they just would’ve spent a few billions before and winterized the wind/gas, it would’ve been fine. Now they’re going to be paying many many multiples more to do it now. All at once and with massive repair bills from the damages as well.
Utilities and homeowner/renter insurance cost are going to be a the lasting thing.
It’s sort of like what would happen if everyone in Texas flushed their toilets at the same time. The system isn’t designed to handle a dramatic drop in water pressure like that.
Texas energy people were old a decade ago to winterize power generation.
Texas is now about 24% electricity from wind, and half froze up, so 12% of outage was from wind turbine loss.
If Texas used wind-sourced electricity to keep gas the supply thawed, that was less than genius.
Yes! You nailed it. It’s the liberal tendency to destroy everything. Billions spent on “green energy” could be spent on improving and hardening existing systems.
Similar to my thoughts about cars. We can continue to improve on internal combustion (135 years of proven technology) or we can throw out the gas engine and start over with engines powered by sparks from magic wands