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Massive battery resources and far-sighted ancillary services providing "defense-in-depth" help protect Texas from a Spain-type power outage

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Doug Lewin
Apr 30, 2025
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First of all, you’re reading this article more than two days after the blackouts in Spain and Portugal. I talked to a lot of experts, read everything I could, and responded — intentionally — slowly.

Unfortunately, too many voices have jumped into the informational void, and way too many of them are filling it with cynical misinformation designed to hurt …

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