You can bet the Climate Change crowd are celebrating over this calamity.
-NW

Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist

POWER SHUT DOWN IN TEXAS NOT CAUSED BY WEATHER

I said this early on - the whole story about frozen filters on gas lines was a hoax. Now it has been discovered that NONE of the wind turbines needed to be shut down, and that in fact conditions were far more favorable than normal for using them to generate power. Yet 30 gigawatts was suddenly switched off and there appears to be no reason for it. ERCOT is scrambling for answers. They can't explain what happened. Even coal and nuclear went down. So what on earth happened? STUXNET? or was this a big political game?

Here are a couple quotes from ARS technica:

"While some early reports indicated that frozen wind turbines were causing significant shortfalls, 30GW is roughly equal to the entire state's wind capacity if every turbine is producing all the power it's rated for. Since wind in Texas generally tends to produce less during winter, there's no way that the grid operators would have planned for getting 30GW from wind generation; in fact, a chart at ERCOT indicates that wind is producing significantly more than forecast."

"In the past, severe cold has caused US supplies of natural gas to be constrained, as use in residential heating competes with its use in generating electricity. But that doesn't explain the shortfalls in coal and nuclear, and the ERCOT executive wasn't willing to speculate."

I'll speculate: ERCOT got either Stuxnet attacked, or has been infiltrated like a Pennsylvania court!

There will be large numbers of dead in Texas
How large is anyone's guess, but you cannot have a cold snap suitable for northern Minnesota combined with a massive power outage IN TEXAS and get good results. It is going to be bad. How bad? No one knows yet. And I won't rule out weather warfare as the cause of this. It is all just too "coincidental." Biden probably intends to punish Texas so badly Texas has no option other than to scream for federal help, Secession? HA!!! take that!!!

If you are in the U.S. you can easily end up with a $10,000 electric bill this month

Opportunists are slapping random prices on electricity right now because of all the problems and 100 times normal price is quite common now. And often it is even higher. You will NOT be told you're being screwed either. The bill will simply arrive and be apocalyptic. And from what I have seen in the past, scamsters that do this get away with it every time, you DO have to pay. Even if I was in an area not severely affected, the only thing I'd run is perhaps a single laptop and the furnace only (if it is not electric) - I would run no lights, no TV, no appliances, NOTHING. I'd have whatever needs refrigeration outside in the cold.

I predict this entire power situation is an act of war and that Texas is a primary target. I also suspect that this severe cold snap is probable weather manipulation with Biden written all over it.

I predict there will be large numbers of people who will receive five digit electric bills even if most of the time they had no electricity. When the lights come on, do not celebrate, instead keep them off and run GAS FURNACE ONLY and for god's sake don't even consider using an electric space heater.