Wind turbines can handle the cold just fine. Just look at Iowa. — Vox

One station in Antarctica uses windmils for its sole source of power during its long 6 month night and come sun rise its wind and solar. That's it for their power generation and it works just fine.

You know in Texas everything is large even their screw-ups and this was a big one. All they had to do was apply the lessons from the 2011 cold event. They did not but El Paso did and they were warm and toasty while the rest of Texas froze.