[michaelmrose]

The things is there really isn't partisan bickering on both sides of this issue in the first place. There is non-partisan reality where poor planning by non-partisan entity predictable led to service disruption. Even the failure of legislators is itself a non-partisan failure. Ordinary incompetence.

The only partisan bickering is the attempt to incorrectly blame renewables for the lack of capacity when in fact planned downtime, ordinary logistical failures, and failure to winterize are in fact to blame.

Everybody ought to have expected them to need that much power. Not every day and not every winter but everyone ought to have expected another bad winter to come round because they had bad winters in 1957 1960 1973 1985 2015 2017 2021. This includes 3 years out of the last 6.

They weren't prepared because they were short sighted, greedy, and stupid not because solar took so much of the profits and not because insufficient capacity had been built out for lack of such profits. Capacity existed and it sat unused or broke when it was most needed.

[briffle]

For me it was an incredibly laughable shift of blame to renewables. People tried saying wind power wouldn't work in the cold, when Iowa, MN, and the Dakota's make huge amounts of it year round. I'm not a scientist, but pretty sure they get much, much colder

[selimthegrim]

Also 1989 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1989_United_States_...