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So? There are plenty of those business in the US that support the economy and provide jobs.
It’s fossil fuel energy embodied in Chinese panels. Solar from imported panels is not a domestic source of energy.
Is that a rhetorical question? We have a grid in Texas with a diverse supply - natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, wind, a little bit of hydro, and we just started installing battery storage and I expect some geothermal to come online. That’s what happens.
DRILL BABY DRILL! Get rid of the DISGUSTING and UNRELIABLE WIND FARMS. You can see them for acres and acres, 3 of them are working. It's a GROSS MISUSE of FUNDING. Solar Panels, communities should NEVER be required to depend on them.
OIL and NATURAL GAS is the ONLY way forward!
If you were thinking like a true Texan, you would support our deregulated electricity market that allows the free market to decide what power plants to build. And has been deciding to build wind, solar and batteries, with no government mandate.
High noon on a sunny day with the wind blowing... so, what was the output 12 hours earlier...
Renewables providing about 10% of total the prior midnight on that particular day. And, wholesale electricity prices were a lot higher at that time also.
Until the ice hits. Wind/solar is just too inconsistent to be depended on on a large scale.
Couple that w the common knowledge that wind nor solar can generate enough power in its service life to pay for itself. Just another government funded boondoggle IMO.
More nukes!
The UAE doesn't think so... 1GW of baseload solar+storage. $6B and 2-3 years to build.
Nuclear is what we need to invest in, not solar and wind which is just not durable, dependable, or cost efficient.
I’m all for nuclear also. I’d like to see a grid consisting of nuclear, solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, energy storage, and minimal natural gas. This is imminently achievable in Texas and we are heading in that direction. The IRA created a tax credit for nuclear power
What was the total overall cost of materials, fuel and resources to build these wind farms and how long until we offset that?
They typically offset that in 1-2 years of operation. Sometimes less. Many analyses are published on this topic.
The US federal government provides tax credits to the owners of solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower, geothermal, certain biomass, hydrogen, fuel cells, and energy storage. These are typically 30% of the cost of construction, provided as a tax credit.
Hats off to Heartland Homes Remodeling & Roofing and ABC Supply Co. Inc. in Columbia, MO. By installing our shingles containing upcycled rubber and plastic along with 3M™ Smog-Reducing Granules on this home in Missouri, they're contributing to a cleaner and greener planet - one
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if its cheap and abundant, then the free market will provide it so long as regulations don't strangle it
we don't need to subsidize things that are cheap and abundant
That’s great! Meanwhile anti-fossil fuel people in Alberta think we can sell wind and solar power to the states. They won’t need it! Plus a 25% tariff kills the idea for sure. We are too far from big U.S. population and they have their own wind and solar.
Upgrade to vertical-axis windmills, they extract 10-times more power than propeller types per footprint
Not kidding
2007, Dabiri dabirilab.com, his 2013 engr class talk theory & field results, 40;22, bit.ly/2TsDZNz
Very quiet, don't kill birds, few parts to
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Nice, need to replace that base load coal with more nuclear.
But overall great report card.
Texas showing the world how it's done.
4 decade resident of Texas here. I remember winter storm Uri in February of 2021 extremely well, including how these vaunted sources of energy absolutely failed to live up to the hype.
Power sources need to be able to deliver when they are needed most, and wind and solar aren’t
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Solar providing 64% of electricity in Australia's National Electricity Market and wholesale electricity cost nothing or less in all eastern mainland states. Inflexible coal doesn't like to shutdown so keeps generating at noon and contributes to negative prices.
In US choosing to not participate in clean tech future, the US misses out on multifaceted benefits that come with sustainability
It's just self harm
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US choosing to not participate misses out on multifaceted benefits that come with sustainability
It's just self harm
Won't affect RoW, just US
US will both relinquish leadership and make itself "largely irrelevant" to global decisions on renewables broadly and electric vehicles x.com/ProfRayWills/s…
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Untrue.. renewables on the sunniest/windiest day are 24% max contribute to the grid..
What's the price of the natural gas power right now? Cuz at 10% utilization, you are paying arm and leg for that. Dirty secret of solar/wind is that every Mwh needs a backup source, usually natural gas based.
Wind power has an energy density of just over one watt per square metre. According to Robert Bryce, author of Smaller, Faster, Lighter, Denser, Cheaper, if all of the coal-fired generation capacity in the United States were to be replaced by wind, the country would need to set
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To take the counterpoint Craig… wind + solar are making true baseload power sources uncompetitive… so when the wind doesn’t blow and sun doesn’t shine, we are all fucked.
Intermittent renewable power sources can look cheap in a snapshot like this, but this doesn't include the hidden costs of the municipal tax holidays, federal subsidies per unit of power produced from renewables, and the long term negative effect on reliability by having no
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And guess what is good at lowering the price of oil (TO END WARS) ?
Not needing oil for energy generation. 
Amazing progress in Texas with 68% power from wind and solar! Investing in domestic manufacturing for panels, turbines, and batteries will keep this energy transition moving smoothly. Sustainability and energy independence are within reach!
Why does the president want us using foreign energy when we have vast reserves at home we aren't taking full advantage of?
This is why we should see Trumps comments as pure trolling. We all know where this is going. Maximize renewables and storage plus gas. We should all stop lying to each other.
Texas is proving the future:
68% powered by sun and wind. $3/MWh.
This isn’t just cheap energy it’s sovereignty.
Keep investing.
Own the supply. Lead the transition.
Between this investment in energy infrastructure and the cities actually building housing (rent in Austin actually goes *down*)... its clear someone in Texas knows what they're doing.
Why cant we have that kind of thinking for the rest of the country.
Some studies believe that expensive wind turbines create as much atmospheric and earth heat as they save.
We need more nuclear though. It provides and safe baseline power level
Jesus Christ, just look what happend in germany aldeady? This has be tried in real life an energiewende is a complete catasrophe.
Here in UK wind and solar by 10am delivered 45% of our energy mix, 90% imported
In New Jersey wind companies are trying and failing to secure power contracts at $150+ MWh 
Wind mills and solar are done. Stop trying to force these on us. They are not cheap or reliable sources.
How much $$$ of subsidies were involved in the creation of that infrastructure? Bet it’s not as cheap once that’s considered
Nuclear is the real solution
How much oil do they require? How recyclable are they? How's the wildlife?
The problem is that you can not sustain the high rates of Wind & Solar. W&S are highly variable part-time generators.
Trying to claim that just because you did 68% means you can do it all the time is misdirection. No Grid has run consistently on > 40% W&S without export.
Do you mean a momentary peak in power?
"In 2023, wind power represented 28.6% of Texas's energy generation. This was behind natural gas, which accounted for 41.8%."
the ignorance of the 'anti-solar' and 'anti-wind' folk is so profound. Everyone, literally everyone in the Texas ERCOT area is paying less for power because of renewables and batteries. Who are these people? Did they, also, have the view from their golf club spoiled?
Love seeing Texas embracing renewable energy - it's a great step forward for our planet!
Informative post. Curious about Power Storage. Wind 
often produces energy that needs to be stored. Any calculations on the lost MW from wind.
often produces energy that needs to be stored. Any calculations on the lost MW from wind.
“Drill baby drill. Rip out those wokemills” etc. It’s a shame Trumo doesn’t get it
OH, the PU**Y had to give up after getting his GREEN A** handed to him.
AGAIN:
Texas is the largest consumer of natural gas in the United States. Texas: natural gas for heating, largest source of power in the state, generates electricity for most homes in Texas.
Its stupid and inefficient. Not to mention dangerous for the environment. NUCLEAR is the only way.
The issue isn't how RE performs at its best, it's how it performs at its worst. A better metric is how many days in 1 year, did RE support at least 50% of Texas' energy needs. Optimizing for this metric, instead of instantaneous penetration will drive better decisions.
Unsure of the maths? 0.3 cents per kWh - currently you pay in the region of 30 cents per KWh. See how inexpensive the suns energy as electricity is! The author may a factor of 10 out? The cheapest largest solar farm is in UAE and 1.68 cents/kWh.
Filling an EV $2.40 & 400 km range
How's solar going to work when Bill Gates etc blocks out the sun to save the planet as it is proposed? 
Yep. You are right. I’m lying. I forged those graphs - they didn’t come directly from the ERCOT website. Or maybe ERCOT is lying? I’m not sure. Someone must be lying because wind and solar don’t work, right? And nobody wants it, right?
Hey Craig,
Instead of building "solar farms" that destroy the beauty of the country side, and then selling the power to the people. Joe about putting solar panels on roof tops thereby providing citizens with free energy?
How is that free? It costs more to put solar panels on rooftops per unit of energy produced than it does for solar farms. But - we are doing both of these things already.
You've been brainwashed and indoctrinated by the wef propaganda. There is no climate crisis
Do you just go around posting this everywhere, even in reply to posts that don’t say or even imply anything about the climate?
False. Because again. You are not taking into account the cost of the battery storage of said renewable entry…. When that is factored in. Renewable energy is exponentially more expensive than fuels
Yes, indeed. The US is the Saudi Arabia of renewables.
So much potential. All that's lacking is political will.
How about at night. No wind? That means somewhere you have all the generation in another for. So you have double the power plants to invest in and maintain.
ERCOT is at elevated risk of blackouts, according to NERC, due to its oversupply of wind and solar. So is most of the U.S. The biggest fallacy you can commit when analyzing energy supply is looking at only one moment in time.
yeah right... until the wind is too strong or not there when you want it ...
Isnt that because the price is low and they just can't shut off like fossil fuel sources? And would probably be entirely unprofitable at these rates even with subsidy?
