Almost immediately after the winter storms and extreme cold temperatures swept through Texas for the first time last Thursday, leaving millions of residents powerless, leading conservative politicians and media personalities began blaming renewable energy.
And while frozen wind turbines have contributed to the state’s energy crisis, that kind of energy has only slightly underperformed against published expectations for winter production. According to experts and industry data, natural gas, the state’s predominant energy source, provided drastically less energy than expected.
Efforts to tackle the ongoing crisis on renewable energy have been gaining momentum over the past few days. Fox News host Tucker Carlson has devoted an entire segment to the claim, not mentioning gas faults but blaming Texas’ expansion in wind energy for deaths in the state.
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