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Podcast: Energy Gang
Episode: The Texas Grid Failure
Description: Even for energy veterans, the depth of failures in Texas last week were breathtaking. As arctic air froze power plants, gas lines, and mechanical instruments, the grid was shut down -- leaving 4 million people without electricity, unknown millions without heat, and three times that many without water. Texas has been through freezes like this before in 2011, 2014 and 2018. Regulators were warned. So who is to blame for this historic catastrophe?This week, we’ll talk about what happened in Texas -- reflecting on the responses and projecting the consequences for how we engineer the grid...