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Daniel Crenshaw: “A big source of the problem we had in the Texas freeze was…”

Featuring: Daniel Crenshaw, Republican | U.S. House Texas, 2nd Congressional District

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Discussion with Congressman Daniel Crenshaw on GOP Dynamics and Policy Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 42:01

I just don't think that these particular sources of energy should receive about 250 times the subsidies that say nuclear does. That's nonsense. And what it's done is it's created real problems with our electric grid. I think that's A big source of the problem we had in the Texas freeze was over investment in only wind and under investment in baseload energy. Baseload energy, meaning things that turn on when you need them to turn on. When you have intermittent sources of energy, your grid has problems every single time. (42:01–42:11)

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Asserts that the Texas freeze issues were due to energy investment imbalances.

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