The Texas Blackout

The Story of a Disaster Foretold
More than 4.5 million customers in Texas were without power during the peak of outages in the state this week, as freezing temperatures hit parts of the country. Those in charge of Texas’s deregulated power sector were warned again and again that the electric grid was vulnerable.
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