There are lots of ways to fix Texas's energy grid. But as winter storms wreak havoc, state leaders are only interested in natural gas
n the midst of a massive power failure in Texas two years ago, state Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, went on FOX News and laid the blame squarely at the feet of renewables. “This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America,” he, referring to an unrealized progressive climate proposal. “It just shows that fossil fuel is necessary for the state of Texas.”
Texas’s power system is unique in many ways. For one thing, it’s the only state that operates its own grid. This limits its ability to import power from other parts of the country when supplies run low, as they did when power systems froze and Texas residents cranked up their heat in February 2021.
The point is to provide a financial incentive for the companies to keep the grid from going under again when demand spikes, and to build new power generation infrastructure.
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