168: Why Does Texas Lose Power During Storms? Power Grid 101 + The History of Electricity in the US

ECO CHIC

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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When you plug in to an outlet or flip a switch, I bet you don’t think twice about if power will actually come from that action. One of our favorite things to talk about over here is science that influences our everyday lives – which happens to be science we just don’t know about when we should. We’re talking today about power grids, energy reliability, and how America manages the supply and demand of electricity. This leads us to answer our ultimate Q: why does the state of Texas so often lose power during extreme weather events? Let’s better understand ERCOT, FDR’s 1935 infrastructure package, what it means for a grid to be *regulated*…. all the things that allow us to usually not think twice about our electric bills. We also go through a quick timeline on energy in the US (spoiler: I refer to both Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison as “our boys”) and get some perspective on why power is priced the way it is. Find me on: Instagram @ecochicpodcast + @lauraediez, on Facebook, Twitter, and now TikTok. The post 168: Why Does Texas Lose Power During Storms? Power Grid 101 + The History of Electricity in the US appeared first on ECO CHIC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.2	have you here today. I hope you are having a really fabulous week so far. I know y'all like educational episodes. I know you like the quickies. And we have not done one of those in a minute. So I'm excited today to talk about something that is a very current event. And that is around the state of Texas and Texas losing power during winter
1:29.4	storms and, of course, also during summer heat waves. But given the time of year, given what's
1:34.9	going on right now, we're going to talk about why Texas loses power during storms. To get the
1:40.6	most complete understanding as we can in the next 15 or so minutes, I want to first
1:46.8	do a Cliffs Notes deep dive on power grids and what power grids are.
1:51.8	And then we're going to talk about Texas.
1:53.4	And then more broadly, we got to get into a brief history of power in the U.S.
1:59.1	I feel like this is a really important episode, not just because of the
2:02.9	current event nature of it, but because as Americans, as regular citizens, the vast, vast
2:09.7	majority of us do not understand how power grids work. We really take for granted the concept
2:15.1	that you could plug something into a wall and something happens.
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