The cost to winterize the grid is.. relatively small, like the cost to winterize it would be exceeded by the cost of alternative non-grid generation and "warmin

The cost to winterize the grid is.. relatively small, like the cost to winterize it would be exceeded by the cost of alternative non-grid generation and "warming shelters". You'd also have to convince people to go, and that's a larger problem - the largest killer during the outage was carbon monoxide poisoning. I'd also note, the parts of texas that are not part of ERCOT didnt have wide scale outages and they are winterized.