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Your point was that it was Texas’ politically driven decision to isolate the grid that caused the problem not the weather. My point is that there are pros and cons to isolating the grid and simply connecting it to the rest of the US is looking at the problem from a very simplistic/reactive...
What about the northeast blackout of 2003? Had the grid been isolated it would have been a much smaller event.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
And yet moreover, Samsung is still considering Austin as a site for expanding their fabs in the US...
Does California have an isolated grid? Why did they have to have rotating blackouts during the wildfires? The Texas freeze was a once in a hundred year weather event.
