lost a lot of generating capacity. Some windmills have frozen and some solar panels have been covered by snow. Some natural gas power and even some nuclear power is offline.
Also live in Austin Texas. Just to clarify most power outage is due to natural gas, coal power plant outage, wind power power outage is only 13 percentage.
Some people (such as TX GOP governor, Abott) blame the outage on renewable energy. It is an attack on renewable green energy.
These failing sources largely included nuclear plants, coal plants and thermal energy generators. Frozen wind turbines were a factor, too, but Woodfin (ERCOT Senior Director of System Operations Dan Woodfin) said wind shutdowns accounted for less than 13% of the outages.