The blackouts, which have left as many as four million Texans trapped in the cold, show the numerous chilling consequences of putting too many eggs in the renewable basket. Jason Isaac writes:
As Texans reel from ongoing blackouts at the worst possible time, during a nationwide cold snap that has sent temperatures plummeting to single digits, the news has left people in other states wondering: How could this happen in Texas, the nation’s energy powerhouse?
But policy experts have seen this moment coming for years. The only surprise is that the house of cards collapsed in the dead of winter, not the toasty Texas summers that usually shatter peak electricity demand records.
The blackouts, which have left as many as 4 million Texans trapped in the cold, show the numerous chilling consequences of putting too many eggs in the renewable basket.
[Jason Isaac , "Texas’s Blackouts Are The Result Of Unreliable ‘Green’ Energy,” The Federalist, February 18]
