Ricketts argued that Nebraska has had cold snaps as bad as the current one in the past and has never experienced rolling blackouts. "We're not some developing nation who has an unreliable power grid." Ricketts said officials "need to have a conversation" about the sources utilities are using to generate energy. "Because we cannot have these rolling blackouts at a time when we have these frigid temperatures," he said. He singled out wind power and natural gas as energy sources that should be relied on less and said more emphasis needs to be put on using coal and nuclear to generate electricity.

Source: Daily Sun February 17, 2021 20:15 UTC