The Texas grid may fail again this year, according to a local investigative journalist who this week raised the alarm about the grid’s state of preparedness ahead of an Arctic weather front. “This is not a good start. Tried checking @ERCOT_ISO dashboard about grid conditions and it’s down. Tried checking hourly resource outage data, that’s down too,” Jeremy Rogalski from K-HOU TV tweeted on Wednesday. He later added that he had gotten in touch with a spokesperson for the Energy Reliability Council of Texas who’d told him that the grid operator was having issues from an upgrade made back in November. Alarm is the appropriate reaction to such news after last year, the grid failed so spectacularly that it caused massive blackouts, with some people remaining without power for several days. The Texas Freeze of last year, as it came to be known, also knocked out power plants and […]