At that time, without power, I was hoping to be able to finish the piece before my computer’s battery ran down. The Texas Tribune ran a piece on Tuesday titled “Texas largely relies on natural gas for power. It wasn’t ready for the extreme cold,” which placed the blame firmly on the state’s natural gas suppliers and power generators, thus telling about half the story. Very few restaurants are open as Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas. In other words, this has been an event in which every power source on the Texas grid failed to some extent.

Source: Forbes February 18, 2021 18:31 UTC