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Say what you will about Texas, but they are adding energy capacity, renewables especially, at a much faster rate than any comparable state.
by heydenberk 2y ago
Say what you will about Texas, but they are adding energy capacity, renewables especially, at a much faster rate than any comparable state.
- dwnw 2y agoProbably the first state to power all those renewables down at the whim of the president too.
- CapcomGo 2y agoOk but their grid sure seems to fail a lot.
- segasaturn 2y agoHow much capacity does solar and wind add compared to nuclear, per square foot of land used? Also I thought the new administration was placing a ban on new renewable installations.
- hooli_gan 2y agoIsn't there enough space in Texas? There are only 114 people per square mile. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas
- itishappy 2y agoWhy does it matter? Is land at a premium in Texas?
- zekrioca 2y agoIt doesn’t.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoThe ban is on offshore wind and for government loans for renewables. Won't really affect Texas much, it's Massachusetts that'll have to deal with more expensive energy.
- energy123 2y agoDoes anyone know how the ban on onshore will work. Is it on federal lands only? If so, how big of a deal is that? I read this but it lacks information: https://apnews.com/article/wind-energy-offshore-turbines-trump-executive-order-995a744c3c1a2eddb30cacf50b681f13 https://apnews.com/article/wind-energy-offshore-turbines-tru...
- malfist 2y agoWhy is that a useful metric? There is a lot of land.
- zekrioca 2y agoBecause the commenter is a pro-nuclear who thinks nucler will solve all of short-term demand problems.
- cpursley 2y ago[flagged]
- jofzar 2y agoTexas currently has snow again, so expect it's grid to catastrophically fail again because it doesn't have access to the rest of the USA grid. So expect a bad result again for like the 4 time in 5 year.
- ljoshua 2y agoGrid is fine, snow is melting, everything is business as usual. CenterPoint had 99.9% deliverability for the past 24 hours, and ERCOT has 14,781 MW in reserve power available (https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/gridconditions https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/gridconditions). Source: I live in Houston. I know this was tongue in cheek, but c'mon, we can respect each other, right? :)
- orliesaurus 2y agoHi from Austin, TX - we have no "abnormal" power outages right now and the tiny bits of snow look kinda cute