Texas staved off rolling blackouts yesterday thanks to the mighty power of the Sun

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

Solar Power Is Bailing Texas Out This Summer

Enjoying that AC? Thank the mighty power of the sun and the renewable energy source keeping the grid afloat.

www.texasmonthly.com

“We’ve got twice the solar we had last summer, and something like three times what we had eighteen months ago,” energy consultant Doug Lewin told me on Monday. “We actually set another solar record today, and we set one yesterday. Renewables throughout most of May and June, as we’ve been experiencing extreme heat, really were the difference between [having] a whole lot of conservation calls and potential rolling outages and not having them.”

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

Solar powering Texas just makes too much sense. Hell they could even export it eventually to make a buck.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

Yes. This dude saved them!

 

[THE_DEVIL]

Gov. Greg Abbott tells electricity regulators to encourage building more power plants, penalize renewable energy

 

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Gov. Greg Abbott tells electricity regulators to encourage building more power plants, penalize renewable energy

At this point they just kind of get what they deserve

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

State rankings in renewable energy

Iowa 14
Texas 21

Both moved up last year

States Leading the Charge on Renewable Energy - 2022 Edition - SmartAsset

The adoption of renewable energy varies across the U.S. To determine which states are leading the charge, we compared them across seven metrics.

smartasset.com