Don’t Like Blackouts? Insulate! Your article on the Texas power grid [“It Could Happen Again,” February 2022] gives an excellent account of supply-side failures but doesn’t mention that those failures would have mattered far less if electrically heated Texas buildings weren’t also poorly insulated (if insulated at all), drafty, and hence extremely demanding of heating. Not only do the electricity and gas supply systems need winterization, but the main sources of peak electricity demand—inefficient buildings—do too. This would also cut customers’ bills, winter and summer, for decades to come—and create durable local jobs and a healthier environment. Yet nearly all the policy discussion, like Russell Gold’s otherwise fine article, is about the supply side. Both are important. And when political conditions make supply-side fixes difficult, efficient buildings…The post Roar of the Crowd: April 2022 appeared first on Texas Monthly.