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Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds. But grid independence has been violated a few times over the years — not even counting Mexico's help during last week's blackouts.
Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds
Hey, Texplainer: Why does Texas have its own electric grid? Texas’ secessionist inclinations do have one modern outlet: the electric grid. There are three grids in the Lower 48 states: the Eastern Interconnection, the Western Interconnection — and Texas. The Texas grid is called ERCOT, and it is run by an agency of the same name — the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. ERCOT does not actually cover all of Texas. El Paso is on another grid, as is the upper Panhandle and a chunk of East Texas. This presumably has to do with the history of various utilities’ service territories and t...
Why the massive power outages in Texas are so much worse than California's summer blackouts FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 People wait in line at a mall to get inside an H-E-B supermarket in Round Rock, Texas, on February 16, 2021. Millions were left without power as a deadly winter storm gripped the southern and central United States Tuesday. Hardest hit was Texas, where freezing conditions prompted utility companies to implement rotating blackouts to stop the power grid being overloaded by the surge in demand.SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP via Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Alvin DeCuier, left, wat...
Over 3 million Texans were without power on Tuesday as a winter storm brought record-low temperatures to huge swaths of the US.