Why are other states with significant wind resources in cold climates not experiencing the same outages?
I just got off the phone with a co-worker who has a son in Texas. Apparently, the plan in Texas was to have helicopters spray de-icing on the turbines if they needed it. However, the weather grounded the helicopters.
Supposedly, turbines in climates where snowstorms are expected, like Nebraska, have de-icing units already on the turbines. Of course, if the storm bring winds that are too high, then the power generation is disabled, as well.
They have, or close to it. A polar vortex caused a natural gas brownout in 2019.
https://www.powermag.com/polar-vortex-tests-resiliency-of-u-s-power-system/
Because they recognize there is a season called "winter" which frequently is cold, snowy, and icy. And they plan for it.