Energy experts weigh in on what happened during last week s storms
Four energy experts gave their thoughts on what led to the statewide power outages and what needs to change. Author: Hank Cavagnaro Updated: 7:42 PM CST February 24, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas Many questions remain after the storms that shut down power across Texas. Many of them are about what went wrong.
Earlier on Wednesday, a group of experts sat down and talked about what they think happened and what needs to change.
It s a reminder of the snow that many of us were staring down last week. We all lived through the events of last week. My family was without power and water, said Jeff Clark, the president of the Advanced Power Alliance, who moderated the event.
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With millions of Texas residents still without power amid frigid temperatures, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to blame.
“We should never build another wind turbine in Texas,” read a Tuesday Facebook post from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. “The experiment failed big time.”
“This is a perfect example of the need for reliable energy sources like natural gas & coal,” tweeted U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana, on Tuesday.
In reality, failures in natural gas, coal and nuclear energy systems were responsible for nearly twice as many outages as frozen wind turbines and solar panels, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid, said in a press conference Tuesday.
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Energy experts say power companies need to be forced, not asked, to harden their systems against increasingly powerful storms.
Motorist drive past a power station in Odessa, Texas, on Feb. 16, 2021. (Jacob Ford/Odessa American via AP)
(CN) “Seconds and minutes.”
That’s how close the Texas electric grid came to a complete collapse.
The startling detail from a historic winter storm was revealed last week as hundreds of thousands of Texans were still suffering from a lack of power and heat amid bitterly cold temperatures.
As the state’s electric grid managers rushed to get the lights back on, they also defended their handling of the crisis, insisting that if they had not initiated a series of purposeful power outages at the height of the storm, the entire grid could have spiraled into a monthslong “catastrophic” blackout.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas lawmakers are promising relief for Texans hit with massive electric bills after a winter storm bludgeoned the state’s power grid, leaving millions of residents freezing