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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by cjbprime on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @10:18PM (#26162238)
It would be interesting to see a plot of price vs. uptime in the face of unlikely events for electric grids, and which spot on the curve has been chosen here.

There are definitely points on such curves, of course, where you've exhausted the sweet spot and just have the option of paying e.g. 3x as much for a very modest marginal decrease in risk. But that doesn't sound like the case here.

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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by zero_deg_kevin on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:25AM (#26180845)
I haven’t found a detailed comparison, but I learned today that El Paso, TX requires utility operators to winterize. Comparing El Paso to similar cities in Texas should provide a more definitive answer.
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