One Year Later: The Texas Freeze Revealed a Fragile Energy System and Inspired Lasting Misinformation

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By Erica GoodeFeb 5, 2022, 5:00 am437 pts
Power outages in February 2021 were largely a failure of the natural gas system, a reality that state officials don’t acknowledge, blaming wind energy instead. By Dan Gearino Texas is recovering from this week’s winter storm, nearly a year after a much more severe set of storms led to a devastating failure…

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