Tackling the Texas Energy Crisis

Description

The Lone Star State has long prided itself on its independence. The state's own electricity grid is independent of the rest of the U.S. in part to eschew regulated oversight. The week of Feb. 10, 2021, a series of extremely cold winter storms moved across the region, lowering temperatures into the single digits and, in some places in North Texas, below zero. As temperatures plunged, demand for electricity soared and rolling blackouts began.

Join a discussion with Jeremy Lin and Alex Gilbert from Johns Hopkins University's Energy Policy & Climate program to deconstruct the crisis in Texas: Why were the blackouts necessary? Did renewables factor into this dilemma as some suggest? To what extent did a lack of winter planning and winterization of infrastructure play a role? How could this disaster have been avoided?