What Went Wrong in Texas?

Why Texas Broke: The Crisis That Sank the State Has No Easy Fix
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-02-25/texas-blackouts-what-went-wrong-with-ercot-and-state-power-grids

What’s behind $15,000 electricity bills in Texas?
https://theconversation.com/whats-behind-15-000-electricity-bills-in-texas-155822

Texas Is a Rich State in a Rich Country, and Look What Happened
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/opinion/texas-climate-change.html

Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/02/what-went-wrong-texas/618104/
 
How Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/us/texas-electricity-ercot-blackouts.html 

The Market for Avocados versus the Market for Kilowatt-hours
Paul Krugman’s interesting take –
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/opinion/texas-electricity-storm.html
“Texas energy policy was based on the idea that you can treat electricity like avocados. Do people remember the great avocado shortage of 2019? Surging demand and a bad crop in California led to spiking prices; but nobody called for a special inquest and new regulations on avocado producers. …
But kilowatt-hours aren’t avocados, and there are at least three big reasons pretending that they are is a recipe for disaster”