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Were the Texas blackouts inevitable?
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Rolling blackouts that left millions in Texas without power this week were the result of a perfect storm—and not just the one that sent temperatures into the single digits.It started on Feb. 15, when an icy winter storm drove up demand for electricity for heating, while simultaneously freezing the state’s power system. The most important failure was in natural gas-fired power plants and gas distribution pipelines, state regulators said on Feb. 16. (Wind turbines also froze, although they were not a main cause of outages, and have been some of the first systems to come back online.) The gap between supply and demand was huge, reaching 30 gigawatts at some points, more than 10 times the gap Ca

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