Feb 19 2021 60 mins 26
The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr and Brent Bennett in episode 282 of the In The Tank Podcast. Brent Bennett, a policy director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation joins the show to talk about the recent snowstorm, cold weather, and the resulting blackouts that recently occurred in Texas. Just how much of this problem can be attributed to renewable energy penetration in the Lone Star State? TPPF - Here's How the Texas Energy Grid Fell Short https://www.texaspolicy.com/heres-how-the-texas-energy-grid-fell-short/ TPPF - Correcting the Record: Why Texas' Blackouts Occurred https://www.texaspolicy.com/correcting-the-record-why-texas-blackouts-occurred/ Austin American-Statesman - Frozen wind turbines hamper Texas power output, state's electric grid operator says https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/14/historic-winter-storm-freezes-texas-wind-turbines-hampering-electric-generation/4483230001/ Austin American-Statesman - Texas power grid operators start rotating blackouts as state sets record high power demand https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/14/texas-weather-rolling-blackouts-power-outage-winter-storm/4485015001/ Forbes (Robert Bryce) - This Blizzard Exposes The Perils Of Attempting To 'Electrify Everything' https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2021/02/15/this-blizzard-exposes-the-perils-of-attempting-to-electrify-everything/?sh=6b3211327e15 Reason - Renewable Energy Is Not the Chief Cause of Texas' Power Outages https://reason.com/2021/02/16/renewable-energy-is-not-the-chief-cause-of-texas-power-outages/ [Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free on iTunes at this link.] Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/podcast/in-the-tank/282-texas-winter-blackouts-renewable-energy-to-blame/. Now become a Ricochet member for only $5.00 a month! Join and see what you’ve been missing: https://ricochet.com/membership/. Subscribe to In the Tank in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.
