Google-backed solar project opens in Texas and is one of the largest in the US

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Except they have a really bad reputation

"It’s become a familiar cycle: A powerful storm sweeps through a swath of Texas and takes the electric system down in its grip...

Thousands of Texans then sit in the dark for days — in either the blistering heat or frigid cold — waiting for utility crews to survey and fix the damage so electricity can start flowing again.

Such power outages are likely to continue.

That’s because the massive network of equipment that moves electricity across the state and then to individual Texas homes and businesses is unprepared for the severe weather expected in years ahead, experts say."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/18/texas-energy-grid-power-outages-climate-change-infrastructure/

Maybe other states have it worse. And I feel sorry for them too.

It's weird about those power outages in California. My daughter has lived there for years and has never complained about a power outage. She lives in LA. Maybe she's lucky?

Here in very rural TN we have power outages almost every time we get a thunderstorm. But I have power back up for it.