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Tuesday, May 25: How to build a better grid
In each instance, lawmakers left
the state’s lightly regulated energy markets alone, choosing cheap electricity over a more stable system. As a result, experts say, the power grid that Texans depend on to heat and cool their homes and run their businesses has become less and less reliable and more susceptible to weather-related emergencies.
“Everyone has been in denial,” said Alison Silverstein, a consultant who works with the U.S. Department of Energy and formerly served as a senior adviser at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. “They treat each individual extreme event as a one-off, a high-impact, low-frequency event, which means, ‘I hope it doesn’t happen again.’”
Opinion: Reliable power isn t a clean energy problem. It s a Texas energy problem.
Adrian Shelley
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Steven Bureau of Magnolia fills gas cans at a station along State Highway 249 Monday, February 15, 2021 in Tomball. He said he’s having to use a generator after losing power at his home.Melissa Phillip, Staff photographer / Houston Chronicle
Millions of Texans are without power this week after a record-setting winter storm ravaged our state.
Rolling blackouts and sub-freezing temperatures have thousands of Texas families scrambling for extra blankets, thick socks and firewood as they endure a lack of electricity for, in many cases, 24 hours or more. Not long after the first numbers revealing the extent of the damage were released, the finger-pointing began.
voter i.d. laws, are they happening now because of this? and everybody is laughing about herman cain, except these guys. is the joke really on them? chris hayes on the gop raising contain. politics nation starts right now. welcome. tonight s lead, republicans have hit a new low, even by my standards. today speaker john boehner lashed out at the president for bypassing this do nothing congress in order to help students and homeowners. this idea that you re just going to go around the congress is it s almost laughable. laughable? helping the middle classes laughable? but he didn t stop there. are you saying that the president with his approach today, from what you know of it, is acting around hi constitutional parameter and violating those parameters? i ve got great concerns that he may be. let me get this straight. you have great concerns that the president is violating the constitution, because he s helping students and homeowners? this is why americans are