21st Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA), Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) - What's To Blame For Widespread Texas Power Outages?
Share: The severe winter weather that has paralyzed most of Texas created a public relations dilemma for the wind power industry, with reports that nearly half of the Lone Star State's wind turbines were frozen as a result of the abnormally cold conditions. As a result, some critics of renewable energy are using the frozen turbines to declare wind power — as well as the wider cleantech spectrum — to be unreliable and chiefly to blame for the massive loss of electrical power across Texas. Yet a closer look at the situation shows that while the frozen turbines should not have been disable...