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What happened?

An extreme winter storm event in February 2021 caused electricity generation failure in the state of Texas. This resulted in a loss of more than 4.5 million homes. Ultimately resulted in at least 57 deaths across 25 Texas counties, and over $195 billion in property damage.

How did it impact people?

Not only did the storm affect people by leaving them with out power for extended periods, and killing loved ones. It also left them with financial burdens, and with busted pipes.

How did it impact the economics?

It revealed vulnerabilities in the states deregulated electricity market, which led to skyrocketing energy prices.

How did it impact the planet?

Estimated damage to be $130 billion in Texas alone. To move forward Texas needs to rethink the states regulatory approach to energy to avoid future such outcome.

Addressing the electric grid blackout.

Introducing a bill connecting Texas to the national electric grid.

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This event is important in history of the environment because the blackout demonstrated the fragility of critical infrastructure to extreme weather events affected by climate change.

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The particullary interesting part was that Texas's power grid was less than five minutes away from a complete catastrophic colapse wich would have left millions without power for weeks, if not months.

Another interesting thing is that ECROT later admitted that the grids frequncy was dropping so fast that they had to manually initiate the widespread rolling blckouts to prevent a complete system shutdown.

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How the blackout changed humans view the environment.

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How the blackout changed humans view the environment.

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The Texas blackout impacted individuals views on the environment by revealing the vulnerability of infrastructure to climate change, which makes the debate over energy choices to the surface, as well as bringing forth issues of environmental justice.

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Ecocentric ideas were able to push to expand to renewable energy as well as improve energy storage. Expanding into energy sources such as wind power, solar energy, and water.

Antrocentric ideas are to create government regulations to make sure utilities are properly prepared for extreme weather conditions. This has been controversy with Texas do to there dregulated energy market. They are also introducing an act that Texas join the national power grid.

Technocentric ideas are modernizing power grids in Texas.

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The streets in the beginning of the storm. 

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The streets in the beginning of the storm. 

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80 percent of 2021 blackouts preventable with addition of Texas to national grid: Study

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Integrating Texas’ self-contained electrical grid with the broader national grid could prevent mass power outages like those suffered in the Lone Star state during a 2021 cold snap, according to re…

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The 2021 Texas blackout closly relates to the 2011 southwest cold weather event. They are smilliar because in 2011 Texas exprienced simmilar but less severe power outages due to freezing tempatures. They relate because both events revealed the vulnirability of the grid. The outcome of the 2021 was simillar to 2011 in the way that Texas was told that winterazation of the powergrids should be mandatory but Texas did not agree and still has not winterezed their power plants or grids.

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2021 Texas's blackout compared to the world

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2021 Texas's blackout compared to the world