The head line of the article does not seem to match its contents.
The article spends 90% of the time describing problems in the Texas grid.
The only mention of the nation problem is this throw away line at the end:
> The issue of extreme cold weather and electrical outages is a national issue that needs to be addressed. However, after repeated failings it hasn’t really been addressed.
Now that statement would make sense if 'extreme cold weather' had caused problems in other parts of the USA.
But to date I only know of two such events and both occurred in Texas.
To make matters worse the national energy regulator warned Texas this would most likely happen again:
The article spends 90% of the time describing problems in the Texas grid.
The only mention of the nation problem is this throw away line at the end:
> The issue of extreme cold weather and electrical outages is a national issue that needs to be addressed. However, after repeated failings it hasn’t really been addressed.
Now that statement would make sense if 'extreme cold weather' had caused problems in other parts of the USA.
But to date I only know of two such events and both occurred in Texas.
To make matters worse the national energy regulator warned Texas this would most likely happen again:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-17/texas-was...
That suggest to me the national regulator has these extreme weather events covered.