In case people not in the Southwest don't know, we do not cool off late in the afternoon or even when the sun sets like other parts of the country. We are often in the 90's up until 11:00 pm during the hottest months of summer.
Fire up them coal fired power plants you mothballed.
If only Texas had big lignite deposits it could tap for power generation.
One problem that some people have mentioned is that commercial facilities are often air conditioned for 12 or more hours when no one is even occupying the building. This needs to stop. Billions of cubic feet of vacant space don’t need A/C at night.
Texas should build gas powered power plants right next to their oil refining plants and if the government bans them, ignore their orders like Biden ignores Supreme Court Rulings and the Constitution.
“What do we want? Less windmills and solar panels! When do we want them? NEVER!”
More spinners, please.
Natural Gas Fired Turbines to the rescue.
Dude, just turn all the lights in Texas on at night, that light will power the solar cells at night……. 🧐🧐🧐 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What about California where constant brown outs and blackout happen? The left don’t want to mention this beczuse it severely u dermines their green energy lunacy
People used to live in the South without air conditioning. Though not as many!
The migrants increase power demands. Ditto EV vehicles.
Not sure how energy efficient it is turning off/turning down air conditioning at night. Where I worked, they turned it down on weekends.
Theoretically there's plenty of capacity here in the nation's largest consumer of power. Last summer consumption averaged about 82,000 - 84,000 MW during peak hours. Current ERCOT capacity is 157,000 MW. Problem is 70.000 MW of that is wind/solar/batteries and it's degrading in its reliability/availability. Simple math and honesty would help Texans understand this predicament we're getting into. Can't have that, though, can we? The graft exposed in Austin might even send people to jail.
Nuclear is the answer.
Go nuclear
Don’t put another dime into public generated wind or solar energy. If private people want to produce that, they can sell their leftovers back to the grid. Spend all public moneys on gas generated plants or new nuclear power plants. Wind/Solar is not reliable.
AND of course. “Communities of color hardest hit.”
not enough time to build a nuclear reactor
Easy Peasy just get T.Boone to build more wind turbines. Oh wait he can’t he’s dead. Call Warren Buffet then.
They’ve long known that ERCOT, the state’s largest power grid, is most vulnerable on hot late-summer nights as the sun goes down. That’s when the big chunk of energy generated by solar power goes offline. It gets worse if the wind goes down as well, and wind generators don’t run.
That’s EXACTLY what they want. To drive up prices, to be “green”, and to kill off the carbon they want to offset.
Frankly, we need to build more natural gas, coal, and nuclear power plants in Texas.