Extreme weather had shut down the grid before, the Railroad Commission had been warned to weatherize to the grid and nothing was done.
极端天气之前曾关闭电网,铁路委员会已被警告风化到电网,但什么也没做。
TED演讲(视频版) 2020年10月合集
When we saw heating bills soar over the last decade, we organized to pass state policy, help small businesses and to put our people to work weatherizing homes.
Not only has he pledged to weatherize the grid, he's going to enforce regulations against flaring, which is a practice of burning excess gas that releases methane into the atmosphere.
Weatherization (American English) or weatherproofing (British English) is the practice of protecting a building and its interior from the elements, particularly from sunlight, precipitation, and wind, and of modifying a building to reduce energy consumption and optimize energy efficiency.