Et tu Butane?
They certainly left out the part where the other grids were having major problems in the snowpocalypse. You can’t engineer to consider all edge cases, it is prohibitively expensive.
I think you’re missing the point. When a part of the grid goes down in another state, it doesn’t take the whole system with it, because it’s connected to a larger grid. Not so in most of Texas.
West Texas is connected to a larger grid, unlike the rest of the state. It didn’t have any problems with snowpocalypse and electricity.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/el-paso-electric-winter-storm-2021/
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The problem of ice buildup cutting off electrical supply being “solved” by global warming preventing ice buildup…
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I suddenly understand why the science communication community prefers the term “climate change.”
