“...investing in infrastructure...”
The government provides incentives to invest in solar and wind. The government penalizes them for carbon emissions.
“If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.” (Obama, 2008)
I’m not arguing that unreliable solar/wind projects are good, they are not. But they were not the primary cause of the outages. The problem was failure to upgrade existing plants, as previously recommended after the 2011 freeze. Twice as much Coal/Natural Gas/Nuclear capacity was offline compared to renewables like wind and solar. But everyone jumped on “frozen turbines”. Now it’s “chinese equipment”. People should do their own research and decide who to hold accountable.