In the middle of February 2021, an Arctic cold front wreaked havoc on Texas, causing a blackout that plunged more than 4 million customers into darkness and cold during single-digit temperatures. The crisis led to the deaths of nearly 200 people and an estimated $50 billion changed hands, saddling millions of customers, including ones in neighboring states, with unexpected excess costs.<\/p>\n
What happened in Texas is an incredibly complex story involving many factors, from a simple lack of weatherization, to flaws in the state\u2019s electricity market structure, to failed governance. And untangling that story, and identifying ways to prevent such a crisis from ever happening again, is a complex task. To help us with it, we invited several Energy Transition Show alumni\u2014journalist Russell Gold of the Wall Street Journal, professor Emily Grubert of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and legal scholar Ari Peskoe of Harvard Law School\u2014to join us in a four-way conversation that explores all the angles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What really happened during the Texas blackout of February 2021, who was really at fault, and what does Texas need to do to keep it from happening again? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[933,107,21,65,64,900,45],"class_list":["post-2836","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","tag-blackouts","tag-climate-change","tag-coal","tag-natural-gas","tag-solar","tag-texas","tag-wind","xen_guests-ari-peskoe","xen_guests-emily-grubert","xen_guests-russell-gold"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n