Texas electric power crisis of 2021 warns of a new blackout mechanism

The Texas electric power crisis that occurred in February 2021 has drawn great attention internationally due to its severity and for not having been foreseen. In this rapid communication, we classify the 2021 Texas electric power crisis as an energy insufficiency-caused power crisis, which alerts of a new blackout mechanism. Different from capacity insufficiency-caused power crises in the past, th...