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People line up to fill their empty propane tanks at a business on the North Freeway Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 in Houston. Temperatures stayed below freezing Tuesday, with many still without power.Brett Coomer/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Shanice Ardion holds her jacket tight in her home as her stove burns in the background Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, at Cuney Homes in Houston. She said the stove was their only source of heat since their power has been out since yesterday.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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February 17, 2021 12:43 IST
The answer lies in the differences between Texas’s independent power grid and the rest of the United States.
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A winter storm dropping snow and ice sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains, prompting a power emergency in Texas a day after conditions cancelled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the U.S. | Photo Credit:
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The answer lies in the differences between Texas’s independent power grid and the rest of the United States.
A brutal winter storm that has left millions without power along the U.S. Gulf Coast and caused power prices to surge has highlighted the differences between Texas’s independent power grid and the rest of the United States.
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Extreme winter storms wreaked havoc across the United States over the weekend, causing widespread power outages in Texas. As many people are wondering why the largest energy-producing state in the country is facing widespread power failures amid below-freezing temperatures, Fox News answer is to blame the state s reliance on wind energy. But while renewable energy sources such as wind are a familiar and convenient scapegoat for Fox allowing the network to feed fears about clean energy and the Green New Deal that it has long nurtured this narrative is flat wrong.
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