Beto: We are nearing a failed state in Texas.

[Major Nikon]

41. There is interconnection with other grids for emergency purposes

The problem is Texas isn't next to very many high population areas, so there's not much such interconnections can offer us unlike denser population areas found on the east and west coasts. The farther electricity travels, the less efficiency you get due to transmission losses. We tend to think of electricity being fungible across large geographic areas, but in reality this isn't all that true. Although such interconnectivity exists, electricity is most efficient when the supply is relatively close to the demand all other things being equal.

Electric grids and electric production are two different things. Some companies do both, some do one or the other. Many companies are involved. ERCOT (in Texas) manages the interconnections between those companies, but it's still by and large more of a network of providers of one sort or another and less of a singular thing.

Texas has never really had much of a problem with demand outpacing supply. As demand increases, more supply will be built. It's the same everywhere. The difference is Texas has plentiful sources of natural gas, so that is our biggest source.