“To see this kind of impact on a wide scale across the grid is very unusual, particularly in the winter,” said Rebecca Miller, a Texas energy analyst for Wood Mackenzie consulting firm. As power outages in Texas multiplied on Monday afternoon, even as the snow had stopped in most places, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) went on Twitter to push back at suggestions that the state was facing a catastrophic power failure. “The Texas power grid has not been compromised,” Abbott wrote. Miller, the Texas energy analyst, said the strain on Texas’s power grid was more reminiscent of the types of failures that could occur during a major hurricane.

Source: Washington Post February 16, 2021 00:43 UTC