Someone turned me on to this series, so I thought I’d take the opportunity of a missing podcaster slot to use it as filler.
There is no New England Take this week, so we’re grabbing some filler. This is the first of five parts.
In February 2021, millions of Texans lost power, and the state’s grid came within four or five minutes of a total failure that would have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. It’s hard to overstate the importance –– and complexity –– of our electric grid. But how did our most important energy network get weakened? And what can we do to fix it?
