When the electricity system fails, the consequences can be deadly. The 2021 outages in Texas due to extreme cold are estimated to have killed more than 100 people, while burdening ratepayers with $37.7 billion in excess energy costs. As climate change accelerates, this sort of disruption is likely to become more common, with extreme weather events growing in...
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