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Do you know what "redundancy" means?
Do you? If power lines get knocked down, they're ain't gonna be no electricity. What states have "redundancies?"
If route A is down, route B is used.
This is redundancy.
Texas only has route A.
That is the issue. Power cannot come from anywhere else than route A because there is no connection to the national grid, route B.
This doesn't prevent last leg localized power outages, but it does prevent the widespread grid wide failures Texas regularly experiences.
But you don't want to hear this, so go buy a diesel generator instead and enjoy being independent.
I already have a generator. And we are literally discussing the last leg here. Our grid is fine.
Lmgdao.
If you think your government forcing regular citizens to buy generators to make sure they aren't without power is normal, you're a lost cause.
The Texas grid would be better off it it wasn't solely reliant on local sources and has redundancy. Your answer to that is to become the redundancy out of your own pocket. Lol
Our grid is fine? Jesus, bury your head deeper in the sand. There have been multiple reports on the issues with the grid in Texas.