Seriously check your outage maps. The rich people in San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston have power while their poorer neighbors get screwed.
You think this is an accident? It’s about as accidental as 1am vote drops.
The problem is that the energy is deregulated and sold by 3rd party companies now. They never bought enough in advance to meet this demand.
Windmills are all in North TX several hundred miles from Dallas, San Antonio or Houston. That power is irrelevant.
Now we have plant failures. Some of the gas and coal plants are freezing. Gas doesn’t freeze unless it’s water laden. The water then freezes things. This means these plants are not maintained well like our roads.
This energy crisis is just as preventable as voter fraud. The problem is lots of people keep voting for morons. The morons deregulated energy in TX a long time ago. This is the reliability and service you get when you bid everything to the lowest price.
I know what you mean, there are cities that are set up to have separate power grids in some places. it is a common thing