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The Weekly Planet: The Big Idea From Bill Gates’s New Climate Book Robinson Meyer © Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Every Tuesday, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. Sign up to get The Weekly Planet Lately, Bill Gates has been thinking about what he calls the “hard stuff” of climate change. He isn’t talking about the challenges that we usually discuss in this newsletter, such as how to generate zero-carbon electricity (use wind, sol...

Editor’s note: With millions of customers out of power as Texas grapples with record-low temperatures, interest has been high in the agency that oversees...

Montinique Monroe/Getty Images Texas entered its third full day cycling in and out of the dark after frigid temperatures triggered a power crisis early Monday morning. A staggering 3.4 million people were still without power on Wednesday morning after rain and snow pelted the state overnight. The state’s grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, couldn’t project when the power would be restored. When the cold front hit over the weekend, electricity use soared to heat buildings, but the grid couldn’t keep up with demand. Natural gas plants, which supply the maj...

Feb. 17—The extremely cold weather of the past few days was marked by intentional electricity blackouts, as well as the usual power interruptions that occur during winter storms. The situation has brought out numerous conjectures and theories on social media and elsewhere about what happened and how to prevent it in the future. The following series of questions and answers address some of the ...

What's going on with the Texas power grid? Why have millions of people gone several days without electricity?