Kenneth A. Reich comments on The New York Times opinion piece: No, Wind Farms Aren’t the Main Cause of the Texas Blackouts

See this balanced article on the need for better planning by the energy industry to avoid the kinds of blackouts now happening in Texas and earlier in California from extreme weather, a predicted effect of Climate Change . It is a blatant lie that the Texas crisis was caused by frozen blades on wind turbines since windpower makes up only a fraction of the total energy supply in Texas- the majority is generated by coal and gas. And this lie avoids the truth that Texas’ long-ago decision to de-couple its energy system from federal regulation, coupled with Texas’ anti-regulatory tradition, led to that state’s fossil-fuel heavy energy industry’s failure to adhere to basic good reliability and weatherization policies and practices that are mandated by federal law and FERC for the rest of the country. The renewable energy sector is not the cause of the energy crisis in Texas.

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This article was originally published on The New York Times website on Feb. 17, 2021