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I’m not clear whether the fund is specifically for natural gas plants? Surely any power source rated to provide power in emergency conditions would be a better

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > any power source rated to provide power in emergency conditions would be a better idea and a level playing field? Texas bet big on solar and wind. Batteries are promising, but gas is proven. If we want to keep taking down baseload coal, our options are nuclear or natural gas [1]. Nuclear is politically unworkable, so we’ll do gas. (They’ll spin about 22 years [2], by which point battery production should be at the point that it can take over.) Put another way, the gas restriction is a limiter on coal and nuclear without being that blunt. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_Un... [2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34172 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34172