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Power Crisis in Texas: How One Cold Week Decimated the State’s Energy Grid
It was a perfect storm of extreme winter weather, bad timing, system failures, and poor planning that caused what has already been characterized as the greatest forced power blackout in U.S. history.
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Two back-to-back frigid winter storms swept across Texas one from February 10–11 and the second from February 13–17, 2021 during which recorded temperatures reached record-setting lows. At the peak of one of the storms, the Dallas-Fort Worth airport reported a temperature at -2 °F, the coldest on record in north Texas in 72 years, according to
This op-ed is part of a series published by The Dallas Morning News Opinion section to explore ideas and policies for strengthening electric reliability..