KUT reporter Mose Buchele talks about the policies rolled out to ensure the grid would hold for the future, the failures that persist, and the people’s lives still affected by the powerful winter storm.
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Did Texas Learn Anything From The Power Grid Failure?
Mose Buchele, a reporter and host at Austin public radio station KUT, joins us to discuss the worst blackout in the state’s history and how our drive to operate on a grid separate from the rest of the country contributed to the problem.
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A Post-Mortem On Texas’s Colossal Energy Failure
University of Houston energy fellow Ed Hirs and Texas Water Resources Institute associate director Wendy Jepson join us to explain why one of the toughest weeks in Texas history was likely preventable – and what the state needs to do to make sure an energy disaster doesn’t strike again.
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