Green Energy Fell Short When Winter Storm Fern Tested the Grid

By Amanda Prestigiacomo | The Daily Wire

With America’s power grid stressed by a historic winter storm, expensive “green” energy sources like wind and solar proved unreliable.

A new report on power use over the days of Winter Storm Fern, which brought both massive snow accumulation and damaging waves of ice, found that traditional power sources like natural gas, coal, and nuclear provided 80% of U.S. electricity during the storm’s most destructive days. Wind, by contrast, contributed single-digit percentages, and solar was largely unattainable during the coldest and darkest hours.

Data from some 500,000 federal electricity records, analyzed by nonprofit Power the Future, show the states that most heavily rely on renewable energy faced the greatest vulnerabilities and the highest prices during Storm Fern.

“Electricity must be affordable. It must be reliable. And before we talk about all-of-the-above, it, above all, must be there when people need it,” the report states. “Winter Storm Fern made clear that energy policy rooted in reality beats climate ideology every time.”

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