Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night

The Hill ^ | May 9, 2025 | Saul Elbe

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The article is notable for several reasons.

First, the headline is hilarious. Is the headline writer trying to be funny? Or is he a typical dimwitted liberal "writer" with zero technical understanding? Or is just a dolt?

Second, these three sensible bills are a strong push-back against renewable energy in Texas. The first of the three bills makes great sense -- you have to buy backup power equal to the output rating of your solar and wind plants.

Third, the writer believes Texans would face a higher risk of blackouts in the heat of summer or in future ice storms by requiring fossil plant backup to unreliable and intermittent renewable plants. Has he heard about what happened in Spain and Portugal a couple weeks ago?

Fourth, the "power of the police state" -- LOL, histrionics, much? Saul's panties must really be creeping up his butt crack.

[Drew68]

Second, these three sensible bills are a strong push-back against renewable energy in Texas.

It really boggles the mind at how Texas, of all places, got sucked into the renewable energy scam. They're literally sitting on underground oceans of both oil and natural gas.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Night vision panels-there’s your answer.

[DAC21]

" Saul's panties must really be creeping up his butt crack.

That or a Tampon.

[dagunk]

That last sentence is a blatant lie or there are a LOT of stupid people in Texas.

I’m going with the blatant lie option.

[stanne]

Texans let things happen.

It will be blue in Texas before long

[Regulator]

“new gas turbines are in short supply”

I’m sure GE or Solar or RR or Siemens or Mitsubishi will whip you up a bunch of ‘em right away!

Whatta ridiculous article

[spokeshave]

Schardenfreude

Also ...when a mosque is permitted....a church has to be built on the same property with parking and road access....security provided by local Texan militia.

[Eleutheria5]

I wear my sun glasses at night.

[Eleutheria5]

They can pick up infra red light from...from...some star thingy.

[oldtech]

It all comes down to having enough RELIABLE power sources & renewable(solar & wind) just isn’t it.

[Fai Mao]

“It really boggles the mind at how Texas, of all places, got sucked into the renewable energy scam.”

The constant 25mph wind, 300+ days of sunshine and marginal land for farming and ranching in West Texas may have had something to do with it. Leasing land to a power company for windmills might make the landowners steady money as passive income

[PeterPrinciple]

If passed by the House, state S.B. 715 would require all renewable projects — even existing ones — to buy backup power, largely from coal or gas plants.

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A very good system approach if you think about it.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Texas is California in 1990. We are still business friendly but the government is massive and corrupt.

[Eleutheria5]

They ended up freezing early in Biden’s term. All the solar power failed, and it was cold for a prolonged period.

[Fai Mao]

I live in Houston, went through that.

[MV=PY]

Tesla batteries to the rescue…

[Eleutheria5]

My sympathies. In Israel, we heat hot water with solar, but that’s it. The skies can be cloudy here, too.

[FlingWingFlyer]

At night is when we need the power to provide light and electricity. The far - left dumbasses must have not thought about that.

[Political Junkie Too]

Here is a different idea. Require solar power plants to gather and store their energy during the day when people are at work, and then only sell their power at night when demand is at the highest, to offset coal power.

-PJ