Probably not. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ Solar flux and geomagnetics have all been pretty normal for the past day.
As for Texas
Cascading failure. You need power to compress natural gas, you need natural gas to generate power. You have very little import capacity from surrounding grids and green energy was not able to keep up to it's rated specifications in that weather.
It's like any large system where tons of redundancy is built in. To get a visible system wide failure you need several layers to all fail or underperform enough at once.
Probably not. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ Solar flux and geomagnetics have all been pretty normal for the past day.
Cascading failure. You need power to compress natural gas, you need natural gas to generate power. You have very little import capacity from surrounding grids and green energy was not able to keep up to it's rated specifications in that weather.
It's like any large system where tons of redundancy is built in. To get a visible system wide failure you need several layers to all fail or underperform enough at once.