There is a great podcast that hit The Federalist that talks about how Rick Perry signed a law stating that in 2005 25% of all energy in the Texas grid should be from wind. Yikes.
Blame who’s in charge. They got us.
I think in NYS, we’re supposed to go to 100%. Let’s see how they’re gonna pull that off.
The problem now is to ramp up natural gas power will take years....
I personally think wind and solar have a real place in the energy mix, just not the way states are doing it now...
If they want to encourage wind and solar power, Governments should subsidize to a greater degree the installation of solar and wind capacity for individual home owners and tie those systems to the grid....
that way you would take thousands of homes off the grid and feed any excess power back onto the grid, in the event of a situation like Texas faced, these users can fall back to grid power in an emergency...
“Should be” and “is assured to be” are as far apart as the earth and the sky, literally.
Windmills and solar panels work only within certain limited parameters, and these were obviously greatly exceeded. Texans want REAL reliable baseline power? Then invest in the technology of Thorium-based Molten Salt atomic reactors to power the electrical generation plants.
https://www.powermag.com/a-thorium-molten-salt-reactor-when-and-where-you-need-it/
As “green” as any technology now currently in existence, no emissions, very minimal atomic “ash”, highly scalable, and able to run 24/7/365 flat out, with no possibility whatsoever of the “China Syndrome” ever occurring.
“There is a great podcast that hit The Federalist that talks about how Rick Perry signed a law stating that in 2005 25% of all energy in the Texas grid should be from wind. Yikes.”
I believe that law was severely violated. During this storm only a few percentages were from wind. Those lazy windmills should be hauled before a judge and made to pay the consequences.