Now that we're coming out of the storm and generally speaking things ran completely smoothly - did we learn anything from this year's big Winter Storm? I observed in New Mexico, (which in some areas got the most snow fall in the entire country) that where there was heavy snow fall, they're still without power. The storm left dangerous conditions for restoration efforts and extensive damage to the community that just suffered devastating wildfires followed by floods this past year. The generation makeup that's normally almost completely renewable is sitting at just 14% right now. Batteries didn't get the charge from solar or wind that they normally do and demand is generally higher than usual. Prices are elevated at around $100 per MWh especially in the areas most impacted by the storm. All of this is basically to be expected.
I've seen many try to draw conclusions based on these observations. I'm curious - what kind of lessons did the other 39 states hit by this storm learn? Did anything exciting or unexpected happen? If so was it just luck that it hit the right place at the right time or were there specific steps that helped plan and prepare for transmission and generation outages that made this time different than Uri?