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But this article, seems interesting anyway.
I live in Georgetown, TX - they went 100 percent wind and solar (actually, not really) and locked in 20 and 25 year contracts. Now, with natural gas electricy so cheap, they buy wind and solar excess and sell it back to the grid at a loss. Brilliant.
Nothing wrong with development and use of alternate energy sources as long as the decisions are market driven.
Sparrows and crows now on endangered species list in Texas.(/S)
If wind power is not subsidized, that’s fine. Somehow I doubt it tho.
With what subsidies?
In Calif, we got wind power too. And our prime electric rates (we have tiers now) are from 4pm to 9pm at 4x the ‘usual’ rate. Not to mention forced blackouts. So how’s it going in Texas, rate-wise? Did your electric bills go down or up?
Pass wind if you want but the real action is gas.
/s. (Do I really need to do this?)
Granted, I’m getting old. I moved here to rural Texas about 50 miles north of Houston about 16 years ago. When I 1st saw those monstrosities rolling up 45 on extended tractor trailers I didn’t know what they were or were for?? Later, I learned about the wind power in the pan handle and in Oklahoma big tome too.
MSN and CNN are insane.
Nothing but nonsense.
Yes, there are a lot of wind farms in Texas. Is it a cost effective source of energy? Not without subsidies.
In this case, diversity is a strength... many different sources of energy is a good thing... more of every source is a good thing... There’s no reason to look at the sources as competing with each other... unless you have an agenda.
In high demand you’re gonna need power on demand. Obviously you can’t demand the wind to blow or the sun to shine. Although tree huggers may think so. Also the areas with constant wind and solar are limited. The basic problem is storage. Until the scientists can figure that out you’ll never be able to completely decouple from something that burns.
Take away all the subsidies and see how much power is generated by wind, solar, unicorn farts, etc. It won’t be much!
It figures, what with Texans so full of hot air, chili and all!
FLAME AWAY!
power only produced IN-state ??
so all that power flowing in from outside of state isnt part of this statistic ?
where the artist doing paintings in all bird blood from the propellers ???
Wind power did empower the Netherlands to pump itself dry. It’s wrong as a fetish — it’s right as an ingenious solution in its niche. And surely with the right will to do it, the units could be built so as to be much less risky to avian wildlife. The hypocrisy in modern fads of “green” is never more obvious than in modern wind turbine power.
Wind power did empower the Netherlands to pump itself dry. It’s wrong as a fetish — it’s right as an ingenious solution in its niche. And surely with the right will to do it, the units could be built so as to be much less risky to avian wildlife. The hypocrisy in modern fads of “green” is never more obvious than in modern wind turbine power.
Make a killing with the subsidies you get to build it, walk away leaving the operation to some sap to deal with the inevitable loss.
Great tax racket business model. Sucks for everyone else though.
Required minimum of 25% by state law, paid for through subsidies and jacked-up utility rates, captive customers. The deregulation of Texas power was only a windfall for the electric companies.