Summary
More than 4 million Texans lost power during one of the worst winter storms in recent memory. How did that happen? We cover the basics in our latest guide.
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These are extremely difficult times for our community. As always, it’s our goal at The Austin Common to provide you with the actionable info you need to know.
That’s why today, we’re publishing this mini guide about ERCOT, the winter storm, & electric outages. Our hope is that it helps you to better understand how we got into the situation we’re in today, and how we can prevent it from happening in the future.
Want to learn even more? Click on the links below:
The Texas Tribune published an entire article about frozen wind turbines, natural gas & what happened to our energy resources
The New York Times published a story about the impact of climate change on this winter storm
