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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The blue cities in TX went with wind power[/quote]

Most of the power they're missing right now is natural gas that went offline, not wind.[/quote]

And they aren’t blue cities that have the issue? Dallas...Austin...Houston...How would the Feds have fixed this?[/quote]

Federal regulations and standards build redundancies into the system, and the ability to get power from "out of state" (PJM for the DC regon) - Texas eschewed this - see the link someone posted from the 2011 explainer - and they did it specifically to avoid compliance with federal standards.

So, ya, it's not a matter of "how would the Feds have fixed it" but rather, had Texas played in he same sandbox with everyone else, they wouldn't be in this predicament, but it's Texas and 'Mericans and Independence,[/quote]

Any large storm in a Southern city would have similar issues. Even blue California, which has to have rolling blackouts because....California[/quote]

Except the GOPers chastised California to no end when that happened. I don't see Californians doing the same. Things happen and you prepare. If you fail to prepare, then you should prepare to fail. hello Texas, the king of lack of preparation.[/quote]

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