Smart Grid Resilience Rises Up The Agenda As Texas Freezes

Texas Supreme Court Ends Suits Against Power Generators Over 2021 Freeze – 710am KURV

Texas power generators are off the hook after the state Supreme Court ended lawsuits against them on Friday arising from the 2021 winter storm. Several days of single-digit temperatures in Texas resulted in hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in damage. The high court didn’t say why it ended the five separate appeals of the lawsuits from tens of thousands of Texas residents and small businesses who suffered power outages. The plaintiffs i…

Smart Grid Resilience Rises Up The Agenda As Texas Freezes

While some initial responses to the Texas energy crisis contained accusations that the failure in Texas was due to frozen wind turbines and problems with other renewable assets, it now appears that the key problem was lack of weatherisation protection in natural gas, coal and even nuclear assets.