“104 GW of power generation is scheduled to be retired, it is scheduled to be replaced by 209 GW of new capacity by 2030 “
Capacity is a useless metric. That 209 GW of windmills and solar cells will produce that output only 28% of the time whereas that 104 GW of conventional plants will produce that output 80% of the time.
Guess which one produces more useful and “dispatchable” power.
Even if you replaced that 104 GW of conventional generation with 500 GW of solar and wind, you still don’t have the power when you need it most — windless hot days and at night.
There are 8,760 hours in a year. Are you ready for your power to be off 10% of the year?
I hope Congress comes to its senses and stops this lunacy.
At least be accurate in your rant...This is 2019 it’s even better now in 2025 but this data is verified and published and free.
[In April 2019, wind generators in Texas ran at an overall 44% capacity factor (the utilization rate of total generating capacity). Monthly wind capacity factors in Texas are slightly higher and less variable than in the United States as a whole.]
Midway down the page is a graph of the Texas wind capacity factors over a years time.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=45476
My turbine is averaging about 20% CF and it’s only in a class 3 wind field not 4s ,5s or 6s like West Texas. Still 7000kWh per month is twice what my largest use for a month is August being that month. I export and sell the rest along with a large chunk of solar power too. ERCOT is all too happy to buy it especially when the sun is blazing and the grid is struggling with the AC loads. I don’t even need the grid , flipping a couple of beakers and set the inverters to stand alone mode and Bob’s your uncle. We lost the grid in the last storms for a day ish the flip time for the breakers was the only reason we knew the grid went down. When it came back up the only way we knew was the single circuit on the other side of the grid the breakers turned back on lighting up a LED bulb that never gets turned off it’s sole job is to show if the grid is live that and light up the back patio where the dogs astroturf for pottie is.