Two thousand miles across nearly 40 states, from New Mexico to Maine, Winter Storm Fern delivered ice, snow, and bone-chilling cold. More than 200 million people were impacted. Nearly 1 million lost power. 

Grid operators, utility planners, and policy analysts will remember Fern for its stress-testing of the grid. The grid passed, but net-zero energy policy, with its heavy reliance on wind and solar, failed. 

CEO of Florida Municipal Power Agency Jacob Williams posted on LinkedIn at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25, that loads were up 10% from the morning and 90% “of power generation is natural gas, coal, nuclear, or oil in Texas to the Plains to Mid-Atlantic to NY/Northeast.” 

After decades of deployment, lavish federal subsidies, a complicit media with relentless headlines trumpeting the energy transition, and the end of fossil fuels, wind and solar accounted for only 9% of the generating portfolio. 

Texas, scarred by grid failure during Winter Storm Uri, provides the clearest gap between installed capacity and operational reality. Despite having more than 40,000 megawatts of installed wind, wind........

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