Texas has more clean energy installed than California

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This term is pure propaganda.

Nothing ‘clean’ about that garbage.

and it absolutely was a policy choice. Unicorn fart energy has a long road to haul in competing on an even playing field with traditional energy sources.

California is governed by idiots and DEI hires. No surprise they don’t know how to run things.

Beautiful weather and smart people in Silicon Valley are what keep the state above water. The politicians don’t do anything but line their corrupt pockets and destroy what others have built.

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Our energy cost is about average for the US - so it isn’t saving us money - and one could argue the investment in laying cable to all the green energy sites has come at the cost of a reliable energy grid.

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I would like to see a cost comparison of fed $s per kWh of green energy production.
I can almost guarantee California has fraudulently pocketed more fed $ than it has actually spent on green installations.

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Not so much as a policy choice, but as a function of capitalism and lack of bureaucratic holdup. Fascinating charts:

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California has some of the worst renewable policy in the country. They let the utilities frick them then force consumers to install solar panels on their houses. It’s kinda funny.

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It would take a 60,000 acre solar farm to equal the amount of electricity produced by a single natural gas fired power plant.

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And America is the "OPEC" of natural gas. CH4 is the cleanest.

That was before we took Maduro out of Venezuela and destroyed Iran's military!!

Several hundred years of resources are available now!!

Not necessarily. It depends on the size and operating profile of both the solar farm and the natural gas plant.
A rough comparison:
A modern combined-cycle natural gas plant is often around 1,000 megawatts (MW).
A utility-scale solar farm produces power only when the sun is available, so its average output is much lower than its nameplate rating.
Typical utility solar land use:
About 5–8 acres per MW (DC) installed.
So a 60,000 acre solar installation could roughly support:
But because solar only averages about 20–30% capacity factor in much of the U.S., its average continuous output is more like:
That is actually comparable to:
about 2 to 3 large gas-fired plants, not just one.
For comparison:
A single 1,000 MW gas plant operating at 85–90% capacity factor averages roughly:
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A 60,000 acre solar farm averaging 2,500 MW would exceed that.
A more realistic land comparison:
To match one large 1,000 MW combined-cycle gas plant’s annual energy production, solar might need roughly:
15,000–30,000 acres, depending on sunlight conditions and storage assumptions.

Ok, so half that or about 50 square miles of solar panels

1. I upvoted
2. There is no such thing as clean energy.
3. What does the type of energy have to do with climate?

I wasn’t lying, those numbers came from an industry source.