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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
@JeremiahDJohns
Texas is already more than 50% renewable energy, and there's a decent chance that by next year Wind overtakes Natural Gas as the single biggest source. None of this is because Texas Republicans care about climate change. It's because their regulations let wind/solar build fast.
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FormerFuturist
@FormerF14883
Texan here who just retired from a legal career in which I did a LOT of energy work. I can confirm that what you say here is 100% correct.
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Carter Williams
@jcarterwil
It is more that in the 70s when federal government put price control on natural gas, Texas decided to stop exporting natural gas. While rest of country built out "clean coal" with power plants and 70 year payback, Texas used gas units. So Texas had the power infrastructure to
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Fred Stafford
@fredstaffordcs
And there's plentiful space and plentiful cheap gas against which PPAs can be priced fairly low. Not exactly a repeatable experiment across the states.
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ExergyDev
@ExergyDev
Your plan to legalize building things pales in comparison to my plan of banning development and subsidizing demand.
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George Roach
@GeorgeR39998136
Careful. I think you mean renewables are 50% of the energy consumed to produce electricity. Generally, electricity is about 20% of power consumed?
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LZ Seishi🇭🇰😈
@LzSeishi
Crazy that wind is more popular than solar in Texas of all places. Shouldn’t solar have much higher ROI? Especially with abundant gas capacity?
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Bean Chili
@anon37242505
Federal regulations make it impossible for fossil fuels to compete, so renewables get built in their lax energy regulatory environment.
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Mark Anderson
@MarkA75899
At this point we just have to face the reality that blue state governance is inferior. Democrats have some things to learn from Texas.
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SanchoPanzy
@SanchoPanzy
Sometimes less is more. Obv, not all regulations are created equal. So it's sloppy to talk about them as if they're all equally bad (or good). They aren't. We wouldn't want a country or a state that is regulation free. Still, sometimes less is more.
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@slowergrey
Solar is also fast growing everywhere because it's one of the most economic ways now to generate power. The cost of panels have fallen a ton. Plus battery storage.
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Trent
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It’s just funny how low regulations on land use can be a good thing sometimes
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David Kinghorn
@david_kinghorn
Yes but it is a march of 9s. Let’s say you can get 90%. Going to 99% is 10x harder. And each additional 9 is also 10x harder. You need at least 5 9s before you can completely rely on renewables.
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