Bill Gates: Texas Governor “Wrong“ To Blame Wind And Solar Energy For Blackouts

Bill Gates: Texas Governor “Wrong“ To Blame Wind And Solar Energy For Blackouts

Bill Gates rebutted the effort by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to blame wind and solar energy failures as the main culprits for the power crisis in Texas, calling that claim “actually wrong.”

“The main capacity that's gone out in Texas is not the wind; it's actually some of the natural gas plants that were also not ready for the super-cold temperatures.” Gates said Wednesday in a Yahoo Finance interview.

Abbott made his assertion in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday, saying that wind turbines that were frozen in Texas by a severe winter storm showed how a Green New Deal ― the series of environmental initiatives promoted by progressives to climate change ― “would be a deadly deal for the United States of America.”

“Texas is blessed with multiple sources of energy such as natural gas and oil and nuclear, as well as solar and wind,” Abbott said. “But ... our wind and our solar got shut down (by the storm) and they were collectively more than 10% of our power grid. And that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power in a statewide basis ... As a result, it just shows that fossil fuel is