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Zeal Shah

UMass Amherst

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  • Apr 14 2021
    Field Note Frozen Out in Texas: Blackouts and Inequity The February blackouts in the Texas power grid left over 4.5 million customers in the dark, many of them for several days. A substantial amount of these blackouts were transmission disconnections and emergency load shedding events triggered by ERCOT, the entity in charge of ensuring a reliable supply of electricity in Texas. In this analysis, […] Feng Chi Hsu, Jay Taneja, JP Carvallo, Zeal Shah