CONSEQUENCES, like chickens, come home to roost eventually. In the US, Texans learned this hard lesson yet again in February when a prolonged blast of Arctic cold crippled the state's power grid. While state politicians blamed frozen wind turbines for the state-wide power outages, about 4.5 million Texans shivered through blackouts that lasted for days. This week, US energy officials pushed back against those blaming renewables for the widespread power failure that left millions of Texans without electricity during the February freeze dubbed the "snowpoca-lypse". The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (Nerc) released a preliminary report on the causes of the power outages during the freeze and outlined a series of recommendations to prevent such reoccurrences.
展开▼
