Texas Avoided a Huge Electricity Crisis and Blackout Risk, Thanks to the Massive 20,000-Megawatt Solar Buffer

Texas avoided a huge electricity crisis and blackout risk, thanks to the massive 20,000-megawatt solar buffer

US News: Texas has relied on its old thermal power plants for a long time, but a massive shift is currently reforming the state's electric network. The Electri.

Texas Avoids Blackout by the Grace of Solar Power

When Texas’s privately-run electrical grid collapsed amid a battery of winter storms in February of 2021, it plunged over 4.5 million people into darkness, and contributed to hundreds of deaths due to the lack of water, food, and heat. A similarly tragic story almost unfolded in July of this year — had in not been for the deployment of a jaw dropping amount of solar power infrastructure that kept the grid from collapsing under the strain. New re…