Fake news. The power plants that they were planning on using didn't start and didn't generate any amount of energy for the grid. The price is a red herring. The wholesale price spiked to more than 6 times the amount the DOE set.
Texas GOP allowed the power companies to choose not to winterize. It wasn't wind turbines (although they should have been winterized too.) It wasn't the DOE or President Joe. It was the Texas Government that is to blame.
The Biden document is posted in the thread.
Once again you’re wrong.
The story is wrong — the Energy Department
did not "block" Texas from increasing power production before the winter storm hit. The "major smoking gun" cited by InfoWars is actually an emergency order that
temporarily suspended federal emissions caps in the state so that some power plants could operate at maximum capacity.
As millions of Texans regained power after the severe winter storm brought snow, ice and...
www.houstonchronicle.com
On Feb. 15, ERCOT
reported that about 34 gigawatts of power were offline,
mainly due to frozen instruments at natural gas and coal plants.
On Feb. 14, the same day ERCOT sent its letter, the Energy Department
issued an emergency order granting ERCOT’s request.