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> Cool. Would love to hear more about how they managed that trick. The grid isn't one big national national. Our national grid is a bunch of separate grids. Si
by bretpiatt 6y ago
> Cool. Would love to hear more about how they managed that trick.
The grid isn't one big national national. Our national grid is a bunch of separate grids. Since San Antonio is on the middle of Texas it is on the Texas Interconnection manged by ERCOT [1].
Here's information on the overall grid generation where if you look at the fuel mix report for 2020 YTD you'll see 26% is Wind so overall it is also above 20% [2].
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection
[2] http://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/generation/ http://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/generation/
- evgen 6y agoSo they rely upon the external grid and pass the externalities involved in being being able to dispatch power when you flick the switch to some non-renewable plant elsewhere. Gotcha.