Inside Clean Energy: The Right and Wrong Lessons from the Texas Crisis The state experienced an “all-of-the-above” failure, and previewed a future of winter peaks in energy demand. The Ted Cruz scandal was also instructive. February 25, 2021 Workers repair a power line in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Credit: Thomas Ryan Allison/Bloomberg via Getty Images Related Share this article Now that the power is back on in Texas, we are entering a phase with investigations of all the systems that failed. But some of the biggest lessons are already apparent. Here are some of the things I learned, or relearned: