Winter Is Coming — and With It, a Higher Likelihood of Power Outages

A truly reliable electricity system must include a greater diversity of resources

Photo credit: Earl Armstrong

It’s really hot right now, so naturally, I’m thinking about winter. 

Summer grid challenges are large — I’ve written about them here and here — but winter challenges are much larger. The US has now experienced five major winter outages in the last 11 years; the biggest of them all was in Texas in the winter of 2021. 

Gas supply…