As a deep freeze clamped down across North America, millions of homes in Texas lost power and experienced rolling blackouts. In Colorado, at least two energy companies requested residents reduce consumption to avoid a similar fate.

On cue, politics quickly got in the way of facts. Baseless attacks on renewable energy as the primary cause for the outages were quickly amplified by leading Colorado Republicans, including Reps. Ken Buck and Lauren Boebert, ironically both of whom represent districts with substantial renewable energy production. 

The truth? The grid failures were largely due to significant losses of thermal energy delivery, not renewables.