The Power Utilities and the Climate Emergency

Steel pole, file photo.

What is happening in Texas is not unusual at all. The rolling blackouts are not rare, and this is the way our power grid operators are dealing with the climate emergency.

First, American utilities were public at one point, but now many were privatized. In my state, they were privatized in 1998 in my state. And my state, California, suffered early through the hubris of the private…