It goes back a ways to when power companies couldn't offer power in adjacent states. NPR's podcast: The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout http

It goes back a ways to when power companies couldn't offer power in adjacent states. NPR's podcast: The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1004840920/the-disconnect-power-politics-and-the-texas-blackout https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1004840920/the-disconnect-power... ... and the files for that appear to be missing... (if you have Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-disconnect-power-politics-and-the-texas-blackout/id1571508315 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-disconnect-power-p... ; Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2l3VBG6RfEGehHm7Y7HfF4 https://open.spotify.com/show/2l3VBG6RfEGehHm7Y7HfF4 ; Amazon music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/5d4dd6d6-bcbd-41a7-b418-7d4cec98acb1/the-disconnect-power-politics-and-the-texas-blackout https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/5d4dd6d6-bcbd-41a7-b418-7d... ). I especially suggest listening to the episode "The Fallout" Texas set up an energy market that was to eliminate waste and in doing so set up their grid so that it was constantly almost at load shedding (as that has the least waste). The problem is there were minutes away from a black start in which Texas would have been without power for an extended period of time - not days but weeks or months (and that the black start generators were also failing). Practical Engineering: * What Is A Black Start Of The Power Grid? https://youtu.be/uOSnQM1Zu4w https://youtu.be/uOSnQM1Zu4w * What Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage? https://youtu.be/08mwXICY4JM https://youtu.be/08mwXICY4JM And that when that happens, given the way that the Texas grid is set up, the rest of the country would be unable to help. And as that "hip to hate on Texas by costal elites"... utilities were trying to charge Minnesota for the part of the cost of the Texas outage ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/houston-based-utility-wants-minnesotans-to-pay-for-texas-deep-freeze-problems/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/houston-based-ut... --- https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/08/11/utility-regulators-say-minnesotans-cant-be-charged-for-entire-cost-of-2021-winter-storm-price-surge/ https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/08/11/utility-regulators-... ).