Power Cuts.

Safe to say that these problems are all down to people/companies cutting corners to line their own pockets. Reading alot of reports it seems that none of their generation is "winterfied" to stand cold temperatures like they currently have because it seems believed that they could save some dollars as the chances of that extreme weather actually affect Texas are small. They are also not connected to the eastern or western connected grid. A decision that again seems to be related to the associated costs that they don't want to pay. The fact the trigger to the California fires recently was from a transformer failing that was installed in 1937 tells you all you need to know about the investment stance of the electrical companies. Americans don't like to pay for something unless they directly need it (health care is a good example of this) so they probably won't want to pay higher bills to upgrade the grid when their lights are still working fine

Safe to say that these problems are all down to people/companies cutting corners to line their own pockets. Reading alot of reports it seems that none of their generation is "winterfied" to stand cold temperatures like they currently have because it seems believed that they could save some dollars as the chances of that extreme weather actually affect Texas are small. They are also not connected to the eastern or western connected grid. A decision that again seems to be related to the associated costs that they don't want to pay. The fact the trigger to the California fires recently was from a transformer failing that was installed in 1937 tells you all you need to know about the investment stance of the electrical companies. Americans don't like to pay for something unless they directly need it (health care is a good example of this) so they probably won't want to pay higher bills to upgrade the grid when their lights are still working fine