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By Reality Check team
media captionFrozen turbines and climate change: The politics behind the Texas power failure
Critics of green energy in the United States have blamed the failure of wind turbines for the power shortages in Texas during the recent freezing conditions there. The windmills failed like the silly fashion accessories they are, and people in Texas died, said Fox News s Tucker Carlson.
The power grid was clearly overwhelmed, but to what extent was a loss of wind power to blame?
Was wind-power failure the problem?
Texas has promoted the development of wind energy over the past 15 years, and some of these turbines certainly froze in the recent bitingly cold conditions