now, we know there s a push to boost renewable energy, but how? more the european commission says production capacity for wind power needs to multiply more than six fold by 2050 if the world is to stabilise global temperatures. this week countries with wind facilities in the north sea agreed to boost capacity there. and at the windeurope conference in copenhagen, there s a wider discussion about both onshore and offshore wind across the whole of europe. the challenge? how to build another 1100 gigawatts of wind power capacity in the years ahead. let s cross live now to giles dickson, who s chief executive of windeurope, and hosting the conference. good to have you with this, giles. it s quite a big ramp up in production, isn t it, that you are calling for, and we are expecting to see here. how does that happen, and what is it like in practice? what is it like in practice? indeed
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overwhelms the power system in texas. i can tell you this morning, nearly 4.2 million texans still have no electricity. texas has the most wind power capacity in the united states, but the texas turbines, which are not winterized, iced up during a cold weather event in february of 2021. electricity output collapsed. texas regulators ordered rolling blackouts monday as an arctic blast has frozen wind turbines. speak of the texas grade, like the california grid, is becoming increasingly unreliable and difficult to maintain. difficult to keep power in a steady basis. this 20-year-old turbine is leaking oil, doesn t look too green to me. tucker: so the point of an energy grid is to produce and transmit energy. it has only one purpose, and that purpose is being sabotaged on purpose by the biden administration and by wall street in favor of green