February 19, 2021

AP NEWS: Texas blackouts fuel false claims about renewable energy

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https://apnews.com/article/false-claims-texas-blackout-wind-turbine-f9e24976e9723021bec21f9a68afe927

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2021-02-18 00:14:50, By 
ALI SWENSON and ARIJETA LAJKA, AP News

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/Business & Industrial/Energy & Utilities/Renewable & Alternative Energy
/Business & Industrial/Energy & Utilities/Electricity

Word Count:
574

Words/Sentence:
21

Reading Time:
5.74 min

Reading Quality:
Advanced

Readability:
16th or higher

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With millions of Texas residents still without power amid frigid temperatures, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to blame.

But the Green New Deal is irrelevant, as no version of it exists in Texas or nationwide, said Mark Jacobson, director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University.

Renewable energy is a popular scapegoat for new problems as more frequent extreme weather events strain infrastructure, according to Emily Grubert, an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

ERCOT said Tuesday that of the 45,000 total megawatts of power that were offline statewide, about 30,000 consisted of thermal sources – gas, coal and nuclear plants – and 16,000 came from renewable sources.

"We should never build another wind turbine in Texas," read a Tuesday Facebook post from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.

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Steve Daines, AP Top News, Media, Social media, U.S. News, AP Fact Check, Texas, TX State Wire

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