First off AOC is wrong - she is a huge proponent for green energy and so she will always color things about that in green energy's favor. But the truth is, even the TX state managers of the green energy they DO have - solar and wind - generally ratchet down those sources in the harshest winter times because they are most effective during the hot summer climes to help out with high energy consumption for air conditioners, etc. So while the GENERAL numbers of energy source from green energy in TX is around 10-13%, it drops down to as low as 7% during the winter time like right now. So it even has LESS of an impact on what happened in Texas right now....
So, thinking that everything "went bad when solar panels and wind turbines froze up" is just more false uneducated hillbilly followings of FAUX News, OAN, and Newsmax. Its a non-story, and of COURSE it is what they specialize in: False News. The main reason is due to natural gas shortages and natural gas systems freezing up.
It is amazing to me the poor, low level of intelligence so many citizens have in this country today, that they watch the TX Governor claim that it's due to green energy, then stated on the SAME INTERVIEW with Hannity that green energy only makes up 10% of the total energy supply for TX. And yet NO ONE even asks the follow up, "if green energy makes up 10%, then what THE HELL makes up the other 90%, and WHY THE HELL CANNOT 90% OF THE SUPPLY KEEP THE STATE FROM SHUTTING DOWN??????"
Or why no one even tries to ask, "IF 10% OF GREEN ENERGY SHUT DOWN THE STATE, AND NO ONE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS EVEN LIKES GREEN ENERGY BECAUSE TEXAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE OIL STATE AND THEREFORE THE #1 FOSSIL FUEL STATE, THEN WHY THE HELL ON EARTH WAS THE ENTIRE STATE ENERGY GRID SYSTEM BUILT ON THE BACK OF JUST 10% OF ANYTHING, AND WHY WAS IT BUILT ON THE BACK OF GREEN ENERGY WHICH THE STATE OF TEXAS HATES SO MUCH, TO BEGIN WITH??!!!?!!?!?"
If people had half the brain necessary to ask such simple questions, then they'd know that all the BS the Republican leaders in Texas were saying, was just that: bullshit. Of course, right after Abbott left the Hannity program, he admitted to local Texas news that OF COURSE green energy sources like solar and wind had NOTHING to do with the energy shutdown - it was natural gas, a fossil fuel source.
The bigger over-riding issue was the state energy leadership did not prepare for something that generally in the past didn't happen for decades, if not centuries. But if they weren't so busy trying so hard to laugh in the face of global warming and other natural climate patterns in recent decades, then perhaps they would have had the foresight to upgrade and improve their grid system to better deal with such an event: the days of 100-year flood, drought, and snowfall events happening only every 100 years is at an end these days.....