The utility rates in Austin are going to skyrocket as well. The Silly council voted to get off all fossil fuel generated electricity. The entire city will be powered by solar and wind generated sources.
The city owns a gas powered facility at Long Lake, and is a partner at the Fayette county power project. I think they already sold their portion of the South Texas nuke. The idiots deserve what they voted for.
No. It won't. Real world has more constraints than their fantasies.
I think you overstate the vote. They gave a preference to Solar but didn't end anything else. Are you speaking about a vote different than the following:
Austin, Texas Passes a New Law Making Solar a ‘Default’ Generation Resource
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/austin-energy-solar
August 29, 2014
Last night, the Austin city council voted in favor of a resolution that would increase the city's rooftop and utility-scale solar targets by 800 megawatts over the coming years.
It creates a plan that would build a small paradise for distributed energy companies, including a utility-scale solar target of 600 megawatts by 2017, a rooftop solar target of 200 megawatts by 2020, explicit language enabling third-party solar ownership, a floor price for the value-of-solar tariff, and a mandatory strategy to procure 200 megawatts of fast-response storage.