Initial reports from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the state's power grid, suggested frozen wind turbines were partially to blame.

Though ERCOT's report on Sunday said that limited natural gas supplies had also crippled the power grid, many Republican officials seized on frozen wind turbines and solar panels as primary culprits behind the outages.

On Tuesday evening, Texas Gov.

Though frozen wind turbines were a contributing factor, wind shutdowns accounted for less than 13% of the outages, Dan Woodfin, senior director of system operations for ERCOT, told Bloomberg.

Most of the power outages were due to losses in coal, natural gas and nuclear energy, according to ERCOT.

Preparing for the cold

On Fox, Abbott also said that the failures from renewable energy sources like wind turbines "shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America." He added that "[i]t just shows that fossil fuel is necessary."

Facts First: Wind turbines can properly function even in freezing temperatures if properly winterized.

According to Webber, a lack of winterization affected power supplies across the board in Texas, not just wind turbines and solar panels.

On Twitter, Crenshaw acknowledged that the state was not prepared for such a storm, claiming "Texas infrastructure isn't designed for once-in-a-century freezes."

However, the state had previously been warned about the issues in its infrastructure and what steps they could take to be better prepared for future cold weather situations.