Gas outages happened at a large scale in Texas when they were struggling with a bit of cold weather. When they needed it the most, it failed them. Coal plants a

Gas outages happened at a large scale in Texas when they were struggling with a bit of cold weather. When they needed it the most, it failed them. Coal plants also struggled. Both had challenges with supply of fuel and cooling water being disrupted. That kind of systemic infrastructure failures is on the rise in the US. There are all sorts of reasons why governance just isn't great in the US. But the reality indeed is that things are unlikely to improve on that front. Which are all good reasons why the market for domestic solar, batteries, and heat pumps is so hot right now. The US is no exception to this.