We’re Not Relying on the Texas Power Grid This Summer

Before last year, I thought the only people who owned whole-home generators were doomsday preppers and conspiracy theorists. I don’t remember any of my neighbors owning one of the noisy contraptions when I was growing up in Houston and Austin. They weren’t necessary. Electricity seemed as natural, and reliable, as the wind and sun.It wasn’t until I worked at a newspaper in Sri Lanka for a year, in my twenties, that I realized a functional electrical grid is not a fact of life but a function of good government. Nearly every day, the power would go out at my office for anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. Such blackouts had become so familiar that few people even complained.As soon as I returned…

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