[af_vet_rr]

And what does the mayor of the People's Republic of Austin plan replacing the coal generated power with, can't be nuclear or natural gas.

Less than 25% of Austin Energy's output is from coal. The majority is natural gas and nuclear, and that's not going to change anytime soon. This was just an announcement to pretend to be doing something.

[Razzz42]

Thanks for that, somehow the facts always get in the way of an agenda.

[rustbucket]

The Austin Energy Climate Protection Plan [my underline] was/is to go from about 15% renewable energy in 2011 to 35% renewable energy by 2020 [Link]. The bulk of that increase in renewable energy is to come from wind power.

Wind power does not function well in very cold or heavy rain conditions [See: Link]. That is a serious problem, IMO, and could lead to occasional blackouts when we need power most. I would much rather have generating capacity we could rely on under extreme weather conditions.

The Climate Protection Plan appears to consider anthropogenic global warming to be a serious problem and that greenhouse gas emissions consequently must be reduced. You would hope the planners and the politicians would be smarter than that.