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On the recordFebruary 18, 2021
Well, first of all, we understand that renewable energy makes up about 10% of the Texas power system. And so while every single form of energy has gone offline during this crisis, it`s certainly not the fault of renewable energy that we`re in this, the vast majority of the power we lost is from thermal sources, natural gas, coal, and nuclear, instead of blame it on renewable energy sources is just bizarre.
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Colin Allred
Democratic · Texas
Source
msnbc.com

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Colin Allred defends renewable energy against claims that it caused the power crisis in Texas, emphasizing that the majority of outages were from other energy sources.

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