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While Texas produces more clean energy than ever, it also produces more "dirty" energy than ever[1], mosty from natural gas and lignite plants. Similar story fo
by thrance 2y ago
While Texas produces more clean energy than ever, it also produces more "dirty" energy than ever[1], mosty from natural gas and lignite plants. Similar story for other places.
The electric mix isn't actually that important, what matters is the volume of dirty energy still produced. And increasing electrical consumption is not actually helping closing older plants.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/texas-set-smash-clean-dirty-power-output-records-2024-2024-05-29/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/texas-set-smash-...