It’s not the reason I call it a failed state but it does occur with more frequency than other states. It’s a matter of something that happens in an emergency vs ongoing issues.
Texas has the most number of outages in the last 20 years of all states, where an outage is defined by the DOE has a power failure affecting 50,000 people or more.
> https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/report-texas-has-the-m...
It's amazing how much people will let their biases color their worldview.
Texas has the most "ongoing issues" with power of any state.