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Reliability council text the power grid that covers about 90% of the state to be an emergency item. lawmakers are meeting right now, about a month into session. we only meet here every other year for about 140 days, so the fact its an emergency item allows lawmakers to take up that issue within the first 60 days. you already saw leaders from the house and senate talk about calling committee hearings to look at this, but yeah. you saw outrage from the top three here in the state among other lawma...

Throughout the south and southeast. texas has seen the most fatalities as two million homes and businesses there are still without power in sub freezing temperatures. a house fire killed a family of four in houston as they appeared to be using a fireplace to keep worm. as texas struggles, frozen wind turbines have caused conservative politicians to criticize the states reliance on renewable energy. but the wind power only makes up a portion of the lost energy in texas. yesterday an official said...

Its among the most arcane areas of public policy. its not like sparking great debate on cable news. but then a few times a year something like this happens and we have this moment where we remember the power grid is the foundation of modern civilization. it is also the key to overcoming climate change. republicans and right-wing media, they want to take every policy issue and turn it into some painful culture war idiocy. and theres an interest to do it. the fossil fuel companies want this too. t...

>> oh, my god, thats horrible. >> a house fire killed a family of four in houston, as they appeared to be using a fireplace to keep warm. frozen wind turbines have caused conservative politicians to criticize the states reliance on renewable energy. but the wind power only makes up a portion of the lost energy in texas. yesterday an official with the electric reliability council of texas said 16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, was off line. nearly double that, 3...

It on the new deal. like planes in a texas ice storm, that wouldnt fly. republicans have tried to blame the power outage texas which provides so much of the energy for so much of our country set up a power grid with an emphases not on improvement but price and privatizing, meaning everybody got theirs except for the customers. whats the word for this kind of thing? im sure its infrastructure. infrastructure is our chance to put in our best closer late in the game knowing that nature always bats ...

Ground. but the fact that much of that infrastructure has frozen, that gas cant make it to the surface and make it to customers homes. so about 80% of the states power grid is fueled by nuclear coal and natural energy, only about 7% are wind turbines and renewables of that nature. and those two, yes, have frozen but they can be winterized to be ready for this type of weather. >> alanarocha, thank you for your reporting this morning. still ahead, even after a second impeachment trial, top senat...

Outages, and wind generation has actually exceeded the grid operators daily forecast through the weekend. did you get all that? okay. thats the people that run the texas grid. wind power outages are, quote, the least significant factor in the blackouts and the main factors are frozen instruments at natural gas, coal and even nuclear facilities. it is just a lie that wind turbines, green energy, are the root causes of the problems in texas right now. it is a lie like donald trump won the election...

Regulated market and a lot of these people insisted on these wind turbines. maybe they do a respectable job in normal circumstances but we need things to be reliable. reliability so far the renewables cannot match the old fossil fuels in terms of reliability and were seeing it in a very dramatic way. >> dana: until either the laws of physics change or technology improves that will be the case. you wrote about the minimum wage. the headline, the human cost of a minimum wage. workers have more to ...

>> now you have this. it really shows you that we have to be very careful when we transition off of oil. a big part of the problem that were seeing in texas, even though the oil and gas is part of its, its the renewable fuels. solar panels basically useless. that is a real concern and something that we need to focus on as we move to alternative forms of energy. make no mistake about it, this will have an impact across the country. we have the biggest shipping channel in the country right now, th...

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