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Electric heating made Texas more vulnerable to winter blackouts
Why did the Texas electric grid crash from a winter storm that would have been unremarkable a few hundred miles north? The answer is largely about a lack of planning. Grid operators were caught off-guard by the unusual weather, and hadn’t invested in the kinds of protective technology (wind turbine blade warmers, for example) that keep the grid running all winter in frigid places.But there’s also a systemic factor: In Texas, three in five households use an electric home-heating system, one of the highest rates in the country. That means when temperatures plummet, electricity use soars, whereas houses in colder regions of the US are more likely to be heated with traditional gas or oil-burning

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