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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And if you’re looking at the Texas issue from February 2021, that happened because a lot of power plants were not properly winterized to withstand the Arctic blast and several plants went off line and couldn’t produce electricity. That caused a massive shortage.