Name: Failures in coal, natural gas added to Texas power outage: White House
Uploaded: 2021-02-18T18:36:20.000Z
Duration: 1 min 36 s
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So about a decade ago, federal regulators suggested, they urged Texas to weatherize its power grid.

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That largely did not happen, or it certainly didn't happen enough on.

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Of course, it was only suggestion, because Texas is not part of the national grid.

You may have seen that Rick Perry, the former energy secretary and governor of Texas, had has said today that Texans would rather endure days of blackouts than submit to federal regulations.

Is the president willing to leave 30 million Texans off of the national grid?

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I will say that there has been some inaccurate accusations out there.

I'm not sure if former Secretary uh Perry made these, but, uh, that it was the that that suggested, um, that renewables caused failures.

Um, in Texas is power grid, and actually, numerous reports have actually shown the contrary that it was failures in coal and natural gas that contributed to the state's power shortages.

And officials at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state's power grid, have gone so far as to say that failures in wind and solar were the least significant factors in the blackouts.

 And I know that wasn't exactly your question, but I just wanted to convey that since there's been a lot of confusion about it. 