Wind and solar in Texas

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I am not saying we don't need nuclear, or gas, but why dump on renewables to justify it.

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You must not know their maintenance costs and barrier to entry.

Let’s landfill those non-recyclable windmill blades in the middle of where you hunt. And take down a bunch of woods to build a hideous solar farm. Neither of which is remotely competitive with gas fired power generation but for their huge tax payer funded subsidies.

You’ve been greenwashed.

Right, this same argument can be made of almost any form of energy.

Taking out all subsidies would be a great start.

Maintenance costs? And running a power plant has no maintenance?!??

Somebody loves em some landman billy bob.

Are you old enough to remember the big freeze was accompanied by no wind.

what did your chart say at 5 am regards solar contribution?

The biggest choke point for Texas in a winter storm is the transport of natural gas to the plants

Most of the capacity that Texas gas added since the 21 storm is in the form of renewables and battery storage

It helped stabilize the grid. There are some people that feel threatened by renewables. It's important to remember that these people probably work in oil and gas and don't know wtf they're talking about.

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what did your chart say at 5 am regards solar contribution?

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I just want clean air and water to hunt, fish, and enjoy my back porch.

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You've never hunted or fished in your life

ITC changes are really hurting Solar at the moment. with ITC you could get up to 30% in federal credit for the cost of construction.

in a lot of areas, the payback now is longer than the life of the panels. only in areas with higher electricity rates does solar pencil. Payback vs lifetime factors in yearly operation and Maintenance costs.

Because of this you wont see the mass farms as you once did.

as for solar, i drove from Santa Fe, NM to El Paso Texas through the desert (had a stop in White Sands/Alamogordo, NM area. There were a ton of windmills, and a large portion of this mega windmills were not turning when others were. i can only surmise they were seized up. The problem with wind mills is they are usually installed in remote areas, so maintenance cost are high, plus the interconnect to the utility distribution system is higher due to distance.

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There are some people that feel threatened by renewables.

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In the current state of energy usage in our country and world-wide, we need an "all of the above" approach to get every single economically sensible energy molecule or whatever available, and that includes renewables. That's how I view things.

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It's important to remember that these people probably work in oil and gas and don't know wtf they're talking about.

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I've worked in O&G my entire post-college life. We power some of our O&G facilities with solar, either temporarily or long-term, rather than begging and paying the co-op to build distribution to us.