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Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes Bloomberg 2/16/2021 Will Wade, Naureen S. Malik and Brian Eckhouse © Photographer: MARK FELIX/AFP Icicles form on a bush in downtown Houston, Texas on February 15, 2021. (Bloomberg) -- Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness. Popular Searches While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a b...

Why is the power out in much of Texas? Frozen instruments at power plants, not wind farms, are the main factor By Will Wade, Naureen S. Malik and Brian Eckhouse Bloomberg,Updated February 16, 2021, 11:58 a.m. Email to a Friend A street in without power in Austin, Texas.Tamir Kalifa/NYT (Bloomberg) -- Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness. While ice has forced some turbines to s...