[RedDevil]

Originally Posted by redneck

If you read the links, you would have seen highlighted text. The highlighted text takes you to the sources used in said articles. Maybe, just maybe you’ll find a more trusted source to your liking.

It’s really not that hard...

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Huh? Why dig deeper when the BS is out there in the open?
The net operators themselves have pointed out gas, nuclear and oil-plant failures as the main cause of the blackouts. They should know, right?

In Texas, wind power generation overtook coal-fired generation in 2020 for the first time ever, with wind power now accounting for 25 percent of the Texas electricity generation. Natural gas-fired power generation is the leading source of electricity in Texas, with more than 45 percent share.

While oil-and-gas rich Texas is the leading U.S. state for wind power installations, the frozen turbines in the Arctic weather have strained the grid so much that rolling outages in Texas continue for a second consecutive day.

The 50% capacity loss (26 GW) by frozen natural gas plants about equals the total output of Texan wind turbines (most of which kept working).

The outages were caused by the natural gas plants. If those have kept working there would not have been an outage at all.

Wind lost only 4 GW. If none of that had dropped out it would hardly have made a difference. The shortage caused by the failing gas plants was too big to fill with other means.
If however there had been 3 times as many wind turbines and no natural gas plants at all, then there would not have been an outage at all. There might be in other conditions, but not this time.

Blaming wind turbines for the outage is completely unfair, a deliberate misrepresentation of the causes.
Zero Hedge is as trustworthy as the Onion. The latter is funnier though.