by Judith Curry
A round up of some insightful articles on the TX blackout
I originally planned on doing a post on TX, but no time. Here are links to some of the more interesting articles that I flagged.
Weather
David Gold: The week the south froze [link]
WaPo: TX cold snap was not unprecedented and it was inexcusable to be unprepared [link]
Intense winter weather will still happen in a warming world, [link]
Weakened evidence for mid-latitude impacts of Arctic warming [link]
What went wrong
Events as they unfolded [link]
Utility dive: The coupled Texas energy, water, public health and inequity crisis [link]
reason.com: The TX blackout blame game [link]
Power companies get exactly what they want [link]
Wood Mackenzie: Breaking down the TX winter blackouts [link]
How TX’s drive for energy independence set it up for disaster [link]
Bill Gates: Weatherized energy plants could’ve prevented deaths in TX winter freeze [link]
The TX grid: Why the power grid failed [link]
Impacts of the outage [link]
The TX blackout is the story of a disaster foretold [link]
Cold truth: the TX freeze is a catastrophe of the free market [link]
TX failed because it did not plan [link]
Texans in the midst of another avoidable catastrophe [link]
One other interesting tidbit about the Texan winter storm apocalypse that I didn’t know about is that how “hand-to-mouth” the gas production and consumption is in Texas. https://texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/…
Policy
The nation’s life-sustaining electrical grid is stumbling into a risk-strewn, low-carbon transformation with inadequate plans, systems and policies in place, a congressionally established expert committee warned yesterday. [link]
We dont realize how fragile the basic infrastructure of our civilization is [link]
A collection of papers on the causes and consequences of power outages [link]
Why TX Republicans fear the Green New Deal [link]
The lessons of the TX power disaster [link]
TX Electric Grid Reliability [link]
Insights into TX culture: TX mayor resigns after telling residents ‘Only the strong will survive’ [link]
TX energy crisis didn’t come out of nowhere: it took decades of deregulation to make it happen [link]
A plan to future-proof the TX power grid [link]
Pielke Jr: The TX blackout and preparing for the past [link]
This blizzard exposes the perils of attempting to electrify everything [link]
Climate change means trouble for power grids [link]
TX energy crisis is America’s future [link]
via Climate Etc.
February 28, 2021 at 05:36PM
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