That’s right AOC - reliance on green energy caused blackouts even to those sitting on the largest hydrocarbon production in the country.
Green energy is for stupid people.
Or people who like to freeze in the dark
“fantasy meets reality”
At least get your facts right. Texas is one reliant on natural gas for power. I still 5 shale wells at a time 3 weeks on 3 off as a geologist and I consult in the energy industry fora number of projects. Texas failed to follow our recommendations after 2011 and winterize not only the power grid but critically also the natural gas distribution grid the Texas RRC refused to mandate h20 scrubbers from gas feeder lines and main lines then when temps went single digits for days at a time guess what the pipes froze we told them this would happen. The gas supply went from 24 billion cf to half that in a few hours. It was not green anything that failed it was the gas grid. Texas has enough natural gas turbines and combined cycle plants to tell wind to curtail every single wind turbine. Peak demand ever in winter was set in the 15th at 69,000 megawatts Texas has 125,000 total capacity of which wind is only 30,000 and in winter ERCOT only expects 10,000 of that. Had the gas grid not gone to critical levels the load shedding would not have happened. Every megawatts of wind power is backed up by 1.15 times its name plate capacity with.gas turbines AT ALL TIMES this is policy of Ercot the wind stops.blowing on the regular ERCOT keep spinning reserves so that every active wind turbine has a corresponding back up available spinning reserves that can come on line in seconds is at 60% and warm reserves which can be on line in under 15 minutes make up the rest. Those of us in the oil and gas industry have no problem admitting to what happened it was a once in a generation storm and policy will be changed to address the deficiencies. For those who care to look and not play politics here is the best explanation as to why the gas grid went down as an industry professional I have seen.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/