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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fact-check-renewable-energy-not-blame-texas-energy-crisis-n1258185

Fact check: Renewable energy is not to blame for the Texas energy crisis

2021-02-17 00:00:00, , NBC News

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

Word Count:
748

Words/Sentence:
25

Reading Time:
7.48 min

Reading Quality:
Advanced

Readability:
16th or higher

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And while frozen wind turbines have contributed to the state's energy crisis, that type of energy has only slightly underperformed against published expectations for winter output.

Almost immediately after winter storms and extreme cold temperatures first swept through Texas last Thursday and left millions of residents without power, prominent conservative politicians and media personalities began to blame renewable energy.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson devoted an entire segment to the claim Monday night, which didn't mention gas failures but did blame Texas' expansion into wind energy for deaths in the state.

About 56 percent of Texas' energy comes from natural gas, just under 24 percent comes from wind, 19 percent from coal, and almost 9 percent from nuclear energy."

Natural gas, the state's dominant energy source, has provided drastically less energy than expected, according to experts and industry data."

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