Wind generation accounted for nearly 23 percent of power generation for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the first quarter of 2017.
The winter is the windiest time of year in Texas. It is also a season when power demand wanes and many plants shut down for maintenance.
But for 2016, wind produced more than 15% of electic power in Ercot.
Additionally, average wholesale prices reached a record low in Texas despite record demand.
Texas spent billions of tax dollars on constructing power lines- moving that cost from electric bills to tax bills.
It also has the sneaky renewable mandate which hides the wind subsidy.
There’s so much wind power now that their Senate voted to drop the RPS but the ‘renewables’ donors blocked it.
And, of course, taxpayers in other states contributed via the federal tax benefits.
Whichever side you’re on, it’s been made impossible for the costs to be fairly examined.