Power Cuts.

The Us infrastructure of transmission and distribution is quite fragmented, and into competing enterprises, driving to designs to the lowest cost.

Wind turbines work really well in Antarctica, but they are designed to keep going in the cold....

I suspect, Texas being the oil state it is, that there is an attempt to score some political points and to hide rather than address the very real problems of under-investment and corner cutting.


We are not immune to the underinvestment issue it must be said, our own infrastructure is remarkably aged in parts, but there is a degree of robustness, driven by national standards and some regulation that requires supplies to be re-routable, perhaps oddly in part due to a desire for robustness against IRA attacks and the like, which were happening at the time a lot of the plans and guidelines were drafted.

This is of no help to cold Texans of course, but maybe they should be looking for more than one cause.

Mike.

The Us infrastructure of transmission and distribution is quite fragmented, and into competing enterprises, driving to designs to the lowest cost.

Wind turbines work really well in Antarctica, but they are designed to keep going in the cold....

I suspect, Texas being the oil state it is, that there is an attempt to score some political points and to hide rather than address the very real problems of under-investment and corner cutting.


We are not immune to the underinvestment issue it must be said, our own infrastructure is remarkably aged in parts, but there is a degree of robustness, driven by national standards and some regulation that requires supplies to be re-routable, perhaps oddly in part due to a desire for robustness against IRA attacks and the like, which were happening at the time a lot of the plans and guidelines were drafted.

This is of no help to cold Texans of course, but maybe they should be looking for more than one cause.

Mike.