It’s been more than three years since a severe winter storm caused Texas’ power grid to fail, plunging more than 4.5 million homes and businesses into darkness and causing hundreds of deaths across the state.
The power grid collapse in February of 2021 accounted for 47 outages across the state during that storm, adding to the 263 power outages the state has experienced since 2019, making Texas the most outage-prone state in the nation, according to Governing Magazine.