“Energy companies get exactly what they want”: How Texas repeatedly failed to protect its power grid from extreme weather
Spread the love
This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom investigating abuse of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter Get stories like this in your inbox as soon as they’re published.
Likewise, Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to date on the most important news from Texas.
In January 2014, power plants of the largest power producer in Texas gave way in freezing temperatures. The generators failed more than a dozen times in 12 hours, helping to bring the state’s power grid to the brink of collapse.
The incident was the second in three years for northern Texas Luminant, whose equipment went down during a major storm in 2011 …
