When Old Man Winter hit Texas with a rare week of snow, ice, and sub-freezing temperatures, the state’s energy industry reeled as power sources of all kinds froze, leaving millions of Texans shivering. Such a crisis isn’t supposed to happen in Texas, the oil and gas capital of the United States, where so much fossil fuel is produced it is exported, and where investors have pumped billions of dollars into clean power generation to take advantage of the state’s usually sunny skies and vast windy open spaces. Republican Gov. Greg Abbot quickly sought and was granted by Democratic President Joe Biden a federal emergency disaster declaration. Power crews came in from other states, working around-the-clock to get power restored to freezing families from Houston on the Gulf Coast to Amarillo in the Panhandle. It was so cold that at one point, half of the state’s 10,700 wind turbines were frozen. …