Texas, the new Florida
The article should've mentioned how the average age of Texas coal fired plants is 50 years old, and the average of natural gas powered plants, is 30 years old. The grid doesn't have enough power generation, meanwhile more businesses are moving here and more people are moving here, increasing the power needs. Those elderly power generating plants are having to run non-stop with little to no planned downtime for maintenance. This could potentially be a much larger problem as the summer progresses, as some of these plants would fail. This risk is highlighted in the Dallas paper today, but there's not much discussion on plans to minimize the risk. The only possible solution is that new plants need to be built, but still need to be planned and recommended by regulators.