Posted on 02/16/2021 7:37:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
“Will you remember that, Texas?”
That was President Donald Trump’s question in the last presidential debate after Joe Biden said he wanted the oil industry to start transitioning to renewable energy. Trump saw this as a gotcha moment, perhaps because Texas is easily the nation’s top producer of oil and natural gas.
But Texas also is No. 1 in wind generation, and solar capacity is coming on fast.
Here’s another sign of energy’s evolving times: Vistra Corp., the state’s largest electricity generator, is retiring coal plants and investing heavily in solar power and storage batteries.
Most of the initial spending, about $850 million, will go toward seven solar projects in Texas, which are expected to be online within two years.
Almost three-fourths of the new clean electricity will be headed to the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
“I’ve told our people, ‘We’re not going to be Blockbuster,’” said Vistra CEO Curtis Morgan, referring to the failed video rental giant that was outflanked by nimble competitors and new technology.
Morgan recalled how Vistra proposed 11 new coal-fired power plants for Texas in 2006. The idea provoked outrage, given the poor air quality in North Texas and elsewhere in the state.
Ultimately, just three coal plants were built, in part because private equity investors bought TXU and scrapped the expansion plan.
“We were like the poster child for coal,” Morgan said in an interview. “That’s not who this company is anymore.”
About a month ago, Vistra unveiled its new clean-energy strategy to investors, along with a new climate report.
“When I walked out of there, it was clear to me that man was contributing to climate change in a big way,” Morgan said. “And there were plenty of things we could do to change it.”
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Who the hell decided that killing fossil fuels was the solution to global warming. So far, it has done “0”.....Except for padding pockets.
My sentiments exactly!!!
Looks like they need windshield wipers and deicer spray on the panels.
I’m posting this on every thread on this subject.
Last night I watched the WFAA report on this rolling black out and power shortage in Texas. They laid the blame of utilities being to cheap to winterize their power generation facilities. Not one mention of wind mills / turbines and how they shut down in very cold weather, something I don’t really understand unless it is associated with ice on the blades.
Nonetheless Texas, in their isolated power grid, now rely on windmills for 23% of their electricity second only to natural gas. Some 23% of their power supply is just missing owing to the cold weather. That kind of gap can’t be made up.
Texas is getting what they wanted, what the customers were given the right to ask for when they have free choice about where they buy their power and by them making that feel good choice to be Free to Choose (the slogan for Texas’ power choice program) renewable power. We are seeing the outcome of a misinformed public making the choice to Go Green. The really sad part is everyone is being made to suffer because of the choice of some to feel good and Go Green instead of they alone being force to suffer the impact of their foolishness.
If your are freezing in Texas and your pipes burst blame some of your neighbors who made the choice for Wind Power(less).
Instead of sending all of us on the pathway of folly a region of the US should be designated or volunteered as the pilot project region for renewable power. Don’t allow any emergency bail-outs, isolate the region and make it exist on the poison the Greenies want to feed all the rest of us. See how it goes. Texas is not the right place because this cold is not normal. It is just giving us a taste of what would become an every day way of life living with renewable energy. The impact could be mitigated with enough money but I am sure the cost would be staggering to provide reliable Green energy.
This article appeared on Accuweather yesterday.
From this article:
this excerpt:
Around 9:30 a.m., local time, CenterPoint told customers that those in the dark “should be prepared to be without power for at least the rest of the day.” A large reason for the continued lack of power has been due to frozen wind turbines in West Texas, grid operators said.
Typically the state’s wind farms generate a combined 25,100 megawatts of energy, but those turbines were ground to a halt by the moist winter conditions. In 2020, wind power generated 23% of the all the energy in Texas and was the second-largest source after natural gas, according to Statesman.com.
Innocent and helpless people are are going to be made to suffer at the hands of these green fools. That is just one of the many things underlying my anger about this subject in addition to abject stupidity, ignorance of facts and science not caring about either, obscene cost and waste, the fraud, that new generations have a false sense of normal and the suffering that many will experience at the hands of these fools. I’m sorry people in Texas are freezing and doing without power and water. I have family there who are suffering for the folly of fools.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Liberals don’t care. People could die freezing to death, and as long as it pushes the agenda, they just don’t care.
They’ll start caring when they and their families are used for wood!
Ah, but the enviro greenies have no families. Well, no children.
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