Texas electricity maximum renewables record
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Texas electricity maximum renewables record
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#3Now, if only it was reliable in the winter…
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#4Now, if only it was reliable in the winter…
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#5Now, if only it was reliable in the winter…
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116690/documents/... https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-winter-storms-2021... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/climate/texas-blackouts-d... | https://archive.today/FOUK8 https://www.ucs.org/resources/gas-malfunction Edit: On base load generation: https://www.google.com/search?q=base+load+myth
Even if you ignore grid failures, the fact is that power output from renewables drops during the winter. That’s just a fact. That drop must be made up by other things (natural gas, nuclear, or coal, in Texas, very little hydro). I’m all for more renewables, but we need a lot more nuclear that can be dialed up to compensate for renewables going offline during certain weather conditions.
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#6Today is definitely sunny and windy.
With power prices negative, I guess those big Bitcoin mines out in West TX are quite profitable burning off our excess power...
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116690/documents/... https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-winter-storms-2021... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/climate/texas-blackouts-d... | https://archive.today/FOUK8 https://www.ucs.org/resources/gas-malfunction Edit: On base load generation: https://www.google.com/search?q=base+load+myth
Even if you ignore grid failures, the fact is that power output from renewables drops during the winter. That’s just a fact. That drop must be made up by other things (natural gas, nuclear, or coal, in Texas, very little hydro). I’m all for more renewables, but we need a lot more nuclear that can be dialed up to compensate for renewables going offline during certain weather conditions.
Or build more renewables. If that's the cheapest thing to do, of course.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if you ignore grid failures, the fact is that power output from renewables drops during the winter. That’s just a fact. That drop must be made up by other things (natural gas, nuclear, or coal, in Texas, very little hydro). I’m all for more renewables, but we need a lot more nuclear that can be dialed up to compensate for renewables going offline during certain weather conditions.
Or build more renewables. If that's the cheapest thing to do, of course.
And batteries:
China launches world’s first grid-forming sodium-ion battery storage plant - https://www.ess-news.com/2025/06/03/china-launches-worlds-fi... - June 3rd, 2025 ("With a total investment of over CNY 460 million [$63.8 million] and occupying 34k square metres, the Baochi plant is designed for an installed capacity of 200MW/400MWh. Based on a dual daily charge-discharge cycle, it can regulate up to 580 GWh annually — enough to power 270,000 households, with 98 per cent of its energy sourced from renewables. The facility supports more than 30 local wind and solar power stations, alleviating the impact of intermittent supply and facilitating the integration of high shares of renewables into the grid.")
China Already Makes as Many Batteries as the Entire World Wants - https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batt... - April 19th, 2024
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#9Today is definitely sunny and windy. With power prices negative, I guess those big Bitcoin mines out in West TX are quite profitable burning off our excess power...
> West TX
FYI, there actually is a city called West, so it would usually appear as "West, TX" or West TX". It's actually between Dallas and Austin though and not in the west.