Some blame a quasi-free-market in electricity for the collapse of the electrical grid in Texas, during a winter snow storm, mid-February, in which temperatures hovered at 0°F (or -18°C). The same people finger deregulation and isolation from the national and neighboring grids.
Opposing opinion has it that an excessive reliance on renewable energy sources, like wind turbines, was the culprit in a grid collapse that saw 40 percent of the power supply fail within hours of the storm, indirectly causing the death of about 60 Texans.
All agree that the oil-and-gas state enjoys both cheap natural gas and abundant wind power and that its
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 January 2021:
Yesterday, the management of Sierra Leone’s Public Service Commission (PSC), presented their biennial report for 2018–2020 to President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House.
Chairman of the PSC, Kalilu Umar Bah, said they were honoured to present the report to the President, adding that the process preceded the laying out of the report in the well of parliament.
He further noted that upon assuming duties in August 2018, he and his team challenged themselves to pursue a new direction to enable the Commission to carry out its constitutional mandate of recruitment and selection of competent personnel to meet the human resource requirement of the country’s public service.