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Losing Power
You may have noticed that this newsletter didn’t appear in your inbox last Thursday. That’s because I live in Texas and we lost power for the better part of a week.
If you’ve been following what’s happening in this state, you’ve probably heard about how Texas has its own (superannuated) electrical grid. The colossal failure of its deregulated, and privatized energy system forced officials to turn off electricity for millions of residents in fear that entire thing could potentially crash for months. That’s why ours went out. Not because a tree knocked out a wire or a transformer blew, but because the state purposely turned it off. Bill Magness, the president and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, told reporters that we were just seconds away from a crash: “If we had not taken that action, I’m pretty sure that we wouldn’t be sitting here today talking about ending outages, we’d be talking about when we might estimate weeks or months fro