Innergex Renewable Energy Inc
said on Wednesday its wind farms in Texas had been hit by the
brutal winter storm that has engulfed vast swaths of the United
States, and expected a financial impact of. | February 21, 2021
While fellow Texan and former Rep. Beto O Rourke, D, said the state s power crisis affected a failed state due to Republican leadership, Gohmert agreed it s a failed state but for different reasons.
Texans are cold and pissed. And to deflect from the deadly conditions that millions are experiencing, the state’s GOP has found a shiny new scapegoat: renewable energy.
There’s a lot of blame to go around, but Gov. Greg Abbott should remember he’s been in office for six years, said Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University. During that time, the electric grid hasn’t undergone any real analysis or improvement.
“When systems come under stress, they tend to buckle, if not collapse,” Jillson said. “And that’s what happened here to the energy grid.”