Rise and Fall of the American Electrical Grid

The American electrical grid can no longer be relied upon to supply the public with the power it needs to get through the day. In 2020, California saw brownouts caused by an overinvestment in renewables and an underinvestment in reliable power. The Golden State pays 80 percent more in electricity prices than the rest of the country. Texas’s blackouts during the Uri ice storm a year later killed seven hundred Texans and cost the state hundreds of billions of dollars. In July of this year, the Texas regulator warned... Read Full Article »