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and yet 85% of their grid power is produced from gas, oil and coal, a tiny portion from nuclear.

Texas grid is about a quarter powered by Wind. Since Wind and Solar are dynamic - there may be variations and how they are measured, but to claim Texas Electric Portfolio is 85% fossil is not right numbers.

Coal is almost dead and there is minimal oil for electric generation. Hawaii burns oil more than Texas.

I think there are 2 nuclear power plants .. one is Comanche Peak which is south west of DFW, not sure of the other.

edit: https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=TX#tabs-4

(click the electricity tab)

Other is the South Texas Nuclear Plant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Texas_Nuclear_Generating...

Locals call it STP. I’ve looked at the blinking lights on the domes from my aunt’s farmhouse since childhood. It provides power to 2 million homes a couple hundred miles away in central Texas.

And even one of their nuclear plants had to shut down from the cold.

One of the reactors of one of the nuclear plants. Each nuclear plant has two reacts, so 1/4 tripped.

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