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Didn't you just have people freezing to death in Texas because of a power outage?
by soperj 5y ago
Didn't you just have people freezing to death in Texas because of a power outage?
- rtkwe 5y agoTexas is a bit of a special case in the US power grid... They're not a part of it, Texas decided to not connect itself to the national power grid because it wanted to go way further in on deregulation and couldn't do that if it was connected to the national grid and had to follow the rules that came with that. That's why you don't really see huge blackouts very often in the rest of the country, power outages are usually due to direct storm damage and only affect things on a particular line/circuit. Texas couldn't bring power in from unaffected areas to balance the spike in demand so they lost the whole grid, it's harder to have that happen in other parts of the country.