The broader vulnerabilities revealed by the Texas blackouts
© Getty Images The lights are back on and the drinking water restored in most of Texas. Plumbers are fixing the pipes that burst in frigid, blacked out homes. Our state’s leaders will need years to fix what went wrong in our epic failure, which featured 500 times as many forced blackouts as California’s wildfires last summer. But national attention will fade if other Americans misinterpret last week’s blackouts as a uniquely Texan failure. In some ways, they were. Only Texas runs its power grid as an island, isolated from the two larger grids that cover most of the United States an...
Source: thehill.com