Basic components of a power grid
How they deliver power to your house and try to keep it working even when trees and other things hit the lines.
Power Plants
What Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage?
Black start – Wikipedia
How do you start a power plant when there is no electricity being supplied to it? It's an interesting question, as a power plant has to be up to speed before it can be synchronized to grid.
Practical Engineering – What Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage?
When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and fingerpointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. This video provides a summary of the facts of the 2021 Texas winter storm.
Using Narrative to Tell the Blackout Story – Nieman Foundation
Reporting from inside a power plant helped to tell the dramatic story of decision-making when the lights went out.
Generator Synchronization – Theory and Simulation
What Went Wrong With Texas’s Main Electric Grid and Could It Have Been Prevented? – Texas Monthly
After winter storms continued to barrage the state Tuesday night, officials with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the body overseeing the grid that serves 90 percent of the state’s homes, couldn’t offer a timeline for when power for every Texan would be restored. Over the long weekend, the council had advised local utilities to shed energy use with rolling outages in order to maintain the reliability of the electric system after a surge in demand, or otherwise risk uncontrolled blackouts that will take longer to reverse. Some four million homes in the state had been left in the lurch without energy in the bitter cold—many for over fifty hours—and as of Wednesday morning, 2.7 million homes still lacked power.