Another Arctic freeze is headed for Texas. Is its electrical grid ready?

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Last year's 'repairs' will be put to the test. ❄ engineering

As to who's right, only the imminent deepfreeze can settle the dispute.A series of three storms last February caused millions of people to lose power and sent the grid to uncharted levels of chaotic disruptions. The first storm took roughly 25% of the power generation offline. Half of that was wind energy and the other half was natural gas. A viral image of a helicopter de-icing a wind turbine caused many to believe that the storm had proven renewable energy was unreliable.

, did go offline. However, it was the failure of natural gas, which accounts for roughly half of the state’s electricity generation, that caused most of the problems. But then it got worse. When the second storm, dubbed Uri, battered the state, temperatures plunged to new record lows, bringing Texas to its highest-ever demand for electricity. By early morning on February 15,, largely because natural gas infrastructure across the state had frozen.

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