Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks, you’ve most likely been inundated with all kinds of new stories and finger-pointing social media diatribes about Texas’ shocking grid failure as temperatures dropped below freezing across the Lone Star State earlier this month. And, adding insult to injury, after coping with rolling blackouts and a plague of burst pipes during the harsh winter storm, some residents were hit with power bills big enough to bankrupt them–in some cases over $15,000. As these disastrous (and in some cases deadly ) developments unfolded, there was no shortage of accusations and blame games to go around, with different factions ( mistakenly ) pointing to frozen wind turbines while others blamed the state’s uniquely deregulated power grid. Now, as Texas lawmakers launch an investigation into the source of the energy system failures, state regulators have also come under fire amidst […]