More than 4.5 million customers in Texas were without power during the peak of outages in the state, as freezing temperatures hit parts of the country.
In November, when the officials who run Texas’s main electric grid took stock of whether the system could handle the coming winter, they felt confident. There would, even under “extreme conditions,” be plenty of power. But last week, an arctic blast mocked their assessment, freezing in about 40 percent of the grid’s power-generation capacity and throwing much of the state into the cold and dark. How could the state’s energy managers have gotten things so wrong?
Find out HERE - The Texas Blackout Is the Story of a Disaster Foretold - Texas Monthly