The February 2021, Texas winter power outage was caused because Solar and Wind power went to almost nothing and there was little or no battery backup. The regular power plants could not generate enough power (or were limited by the Biden administration from generating more or buying more from other providers through the grid). The problem is not generating wind and solar power, it is what do you do when there is no wind or bright sun and you don’t have 100% backup from other means of generation.
Texas limits itself from "buying more from other providers through the grid" because they are their own self-synchronized AC island, not synched up to either the Eastern or Western North American grids, or to the Mexican grid for that matter.
Any power that comes into Texas from the outside has to go through either a high-voltage DC conversion process or through devices called VFTs ("variable-frequency transformers") to match phase and frequency. Those converter stations have limited capacity and are expensive to build.
That's why you have a "Texas winter power outage" and not a "Louisiana winter power outage" or an "Oklahoma winter power outage".
“The February 2021, Texas winter power outage was caused because Solar and Wind power went to almost nothing and there was little or no battery backup. “
Wrong , the gas wells, and gathering lines froze up crashing the gas grid and taking 38,000MW of thermal generation off line, plus the gas pipeline pumps where changed to electric under the EPA NOx rules when the power grid went down it took the gas pipeline pumps off line too they were not marked as critical infrastructure with backup generation on site they still are not btw as the industry does want to spend a billion plus to install heaters, insulation and back-up diesels at tens of thousands of sites.
Here is the official third party independent report to the Texas legislature. It’s clearly shows thermal generation loss of 38,000+ megawatts was the cause, wind and solar actually helped by being in island mode and making 9000+ MW when there would have been zero.
Flat out your opinion is wrong the data again was clear for those in the power industry who can see it in real time. I reached the grid drop under 59.2Hz live I knew instantly the grid was going down. We watched the gas pipeline pressures plummet as the pumps tripped one then in cascade failure.Gas is reserved for residential first so all remaining pressures was diverted to the city gates and then turbines tripped off in a cascade failure. We lost two nukes due to their cooling system sensors freezing up shortly after about the only thing that did work was solar in island mode and wind with grid independent voltage sourced inverters. Texas came within 4 min of a complete blackstart event it was wind turbines that saved the grids operating frequency once the spinning gas turbines froze out the only inertia left was synchronous type wind turbines and they absolutely saved the grid exactly opposite to what your opinion is. Read the report it’s 101 pages long they didn’t miss anything the legislature took it and passed laws based on it.