{"id":345041,"date":"2026-01-31T02:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/what-really-broke-on-the-grid-during-storm-fern-it-wasnt-wind-or-solar\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T02:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:06:21","slug":"what-really-broke-on-the-grid-during-storm-fern-it-wasnt-wind-or-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/what-really-broke-on-the-grid-during-storm-fern-it-wasnt-wind-or-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"What really broke on the grid during Storm Fern \u2013 it wasn\u2019t wind or solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/what-really-broke-on-the-grid-during-storm-fern-it-wasnt-wind-or-solar.jpg\" \/>Winter Storm Fern knocked out power for millions of people across the US and reignited a familiar political and media fight over what really causes large-scale outages during extreme weather. To separate the rhetoric from the operational reality, Electrek spoke with Leah Qusba, CEO of GoodPower, a research, strategic communications, and campaigning organization focused on advancing the global renewable energy transition.. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/01\/30\/what-really-broke-on-the-grid-during-storm-fern-it-wasnt-wind-or-solar\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/what-really-broke-on-the-grid-during-storm-fern-it-wasnt-wind-or-solar\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":345042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}