The court order that kept Texas and Energy Island was signed in 1979. A little over 40 years later, early in Monday morning at 2 a.m., our power went out. We're going on about 30 hours or more. The isolationists, as Holman called them, had won.
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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