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Reasoning basically that if you can’t beat them you might as well join them, these executives want more support for cleaner alternatives, a category that includes not just renewables but also greener fossil fuels. “As Houston transitions, we have to think about what are the new drivers of the Houston economy,” said Brett Perlman, CEO of the business-friendly nonprofit Center for Houston’s Future.
The question of how governments subsidize energy and how that should change involves existential stakes for the Texas economy. Counting subsidies is more of a philosophical exercise than a mathematical one. The answer turns mostly on what’s included in the tally.
Energy experts weigh in on what happened during last week s storms
Four energy experts gave their thoughts on what led to the statewide power outages and what needs to change. Author: Hank Cavagnaro Updated: 7:42 PM CST February 24, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas Many questions remain after the storms that shut down power across Texas. Many of them are about what went wrong.
Earlier on Wednesday, a group of experts sat down and talked about what they think happened and what needs to change.
It s a reminder of the snow that many of us were staring down last week. We all lived through the events of last week. My family was without power and water, said Jeff Clark, the president of the Advanced Power Alliance, who moderated the event.
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What went wrong? The Lone Star State made three fundamental errors.
February 21, 2021
Texas’s outage left millions of people, including Manessa Grady and her two sons, in the dark.Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times / Redux
How could this have happened? For four days, millions of people in Texas the so-called energy capital of the world shivered in the dark, unable to turn the lights on or run their heaters during some of the coldest days in decades. At least 30 Texans have died so far, including a 75-year-old man whose oxygen machine lost power and an 11-year-old boy who may have perished of hypothermia. Desperate families have tried to stay warm by running generators and grills indoors, leading to more than 450 carbon-monoxide poisonings, many of them in children.