How Texas became the hottest grid battery market in the country

Canary Media ^ | 05/13/2024 | Julian Spector

[TexasKamaAina]

States like California, New York, and Massachusetts have passed climate policies specifically intended to jump-start this battery industry. But this year, for the first time ever, the fastest-growing energy storage market appears to be Texas, a free-market-affirming red state that officially cares little about solving climate change. Nonetheless, the state’s low-regulation, business-friendly landscape has created ideal conditions to build batteries quickly and at scale, just like it previously incubated thriving wind and solar markets.

[wita]

Thanks for the time and effort, particularly winter issues and your location vs locations further North where winter conditions could be four to six months long.

As an aside the local electricity provider is building a large solar array to add to their renewable numbers in a State where such a build should be considered borderline insanity, if ROI was a consideration.

Give me a nice clean coal fired power plant any day to what some environmentalist falsely believes is possible from so called renewables. Especially in northern regions.

[Tell It Right]

About hail and solar panels, are your panels angled fairly steep? IMHO that’s part of the physics on if your panels can withstand hail. We rarely get hail in my part of Alabama. My panels are angled at a steep pitch like is optimal for winter. One reason I didn’t mount them on a pivot to point them up for the summer months is because of the possibility of hail.

[GenXPolymath]

Yes most of mine are set at winter pitch year round. The system is so large the slight potential loss in summer is more than made up for by the longer daylight hours. The panels themselves carry a hail rating as thin film panels. The ones on the actual home southern facing roof line are even steeper and are flush mounted at the roofs pitch which is 35+ degrees. They are all covered under home owners ins too.