Regardless, windfarms copped the blame. âIcy weather chills Texas wind energy as deep freeze grips much of US,â was one Reuters headline. âFrozen Turbines and Surging Demand Prompt Rolling Blackouts in Texas,â wrote the New York Times. âThe windmills froze, so the power grid failed,â said Tucker Carlson of Fox News. Fox blamed renewables for the blackouts 128 times over two days. The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, said: âThis shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal.â He was joined by the Republicans Ted Cruz, Dan Crenshaw and Lauren Boebert, each seizing on the crisis to attack renewables (most of them on the receiving end of eye-watering sums from fossil industry).