Following the February deep freeze that nearly collapsed the Texas power grid, state Republican leaders promised to fix the grid’s problems fast. As it turns out, the fixes were half-fast. When the freeze hit, Gov. Greg Abbott wrongly singled out frozen wind and solar generators for blame. However, the near-collapse was due mainly to freeze-related failures at natural gas, coal and nuclear plants and associated fuel equipment.

Abbott promised to make the power grid a priority for the Republican-dominated Legislature, which had failed to heed past warnings. When he signed two bills into law in June, Abbott bragged that they contained “everything that needed to be done” to fix the Texas power grid. He was wrong again.

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