Nothing like piling on, you lucky daggum Texas renewable reliant types. Not only is it H-O-T (aka “summer in TEXAS“), your state has sold its soul to the renewables cult, so when summer st.
Opinion The Texas Big Freeze: How a changing climate pushed the state s power grid to the brink Published June 2, 2021 Ron Jenkins via Getty Images
The following is a contributed article by Dan Esposito, senior policy analyst at Energy Innovation, and Eric Gimon, senior fellow at Energy Innovation.
Editor s Note: This is the first of a three-part op-ed series in Utility Dive based on Energy Innovation s research examining 1) what drove the extended Texas outages, 2) the degree to which energy markets failed, and 3) how different entities can improve U.S. energy market and power infrastructure resiliency against extreme events while decarbonizing the grid to mitigate future climate risk.