As Texas freezes in the dark, Ted Cruz takes his family to Cancun

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Actually, renewables had little to do with the problems. Most of the outages were due to issues with natural gas production. And, because of deregulation, they are unable to import power from other states when they need it most. it's a messed up situation all the way around..

How the Texas power grid failed and what could stop it from happening again

That's weird... I read that it was because the wind turbines iced up and failed - that's a huge problem up here.