How can the Southern power grid handle months of blistering heat with everyone blasting air conditioners, but can’t handle two days below freezing?

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How can the Southern power grid handle months of blistering heat with everyone blasting air conditioners, but can’t handle two days below freezing?

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I’m assuming you are talking about texas. If so, here is a great video from Practical Engineering explaining what happened in 2021, which likely has similar causes to now.

In addition to what others are saying, texas relies heavily on natural gas which is sensitive to freezing and texas has not done much in the way of insulation like northern climate areas have because it doesn’t get cold as often.