“wouldn’t it have made sense to use wind generators that work in winter?”
As I understand it the wind turbines in Texas have a de-icing feature available that might have helped with freeze up, but Texas for some reason opted to NOT have that feature installed on their wind turbines.
Heard that yesterday either on OANN or newsmax.
Somebody wanted to save $$ I would assume.
That’s my understanding, too. Likewise there is equipment they could have installed that would have prevented the gas line freeze-ups and kept the coal and nuclear plants from shutting down but they opted not to do that as well. While this weather is not common in Texas it also isn’t unheard of, so the decision to cut costs has led to the deaths and suffering that Texas has gone through and is going through. And since the power company is a monopoly it’s unlikely there will be any penalties for them.