The Midnight Connection

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In 1976, a Texas utility company tried to connect the Texas grid to the rest of the country. The story never really gelled into a full story. We get little pieces from different people. But we're not going to learn about Roy Orbison. It's just his brutal start and it was poor.

Texas's energy grid is largely disconnected from the rest of the U.S. That led to disastrous consequences last year when the state's grid was overloaded during a winter storm. Back in the 1970s, one company attempted to change the system in a secret, middle-of-the-night operation.
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