Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
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Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
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Re: Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
#2As a counterpoint, I recommend this article:
https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/08/12/texas-builds-clean-power-bu...
It looks into the numbers for the Texas renewable buildout, and there's a very important caveat: the amount of renewables you build is not the relevant metric. Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there.
Re: Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
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Re: Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
#4As a counterpoint, I recommend this article: https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/08/12/texas-builds-clean-power-bu... It looks into the numbers for the Texas renewable buildout, and there's a very important caveat: the amount of renewables you build is not the relevant metric. Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there.
> Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there.
Are you saying they would have released less CO2 had they installed natural gas power plants instead?
Re: Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
#5Gimme a break. Compare China's centralized economy's solar/wind/nuclear production to the entirety of the west's decentralized, privatized economy. not even close.
Re: Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
#6As a counterpoint, I recommend this article: https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/08/12/texas-builds-clean-power-bu... It looks into the numbers for the Texas renewable buildout, and there's a very important caveat: the amount of renewables you build is not the relevant metric. Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there.
> Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there. Are you saying they would have released less CO2 had they installed natural gas power plants instead?
Maybe they are saying that if they'd followed California's policies they'd have a higher percentage of their power from renewables and they wouldn't be so wasteful with the energy they do generate.
Because that's the point of this article isn't it? To follow Texas policies, not California's, by pointing to absolute numbers of renewables.
If they looked at absolute numbers on coal and gas they'd look worse.
Re: Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
#7As a counterpoint, I recommend this article: https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/08/12/texas-builds-clean-power-bu... It looks into the numbers for the Texas renewable buildout, and there's a very important caveat: the amount of renewables you build is not the relevant metric. Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there.
> Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there.
If we're talking about the impact of a particular tech, choosing the proper baseline is important, otherwise it's easy to reach fallacious results in counterfactual reasoning.
Emission reduction versus what? Per-capita emissions reductions? Per-kWh emissions reductions? Compared to whose usage?
Plotting total emission and saying "we've failed!" actually hides a lot of what's going on, it's only one aspect, and increased population can hide that overall emissions are trending in the right way.
Re: Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
#8As a counterpoint, I recommend this article: https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/08/12/texas-builds-clean-power-bu... It looks into the numbers for the Texas renewable buildout, and there's a very important caveat: the amount of renewables you build is not the relevant metric. Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there.
> Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there. Are you saying they would have released less CO2 had they installed natural gas power plants instead?
They would have released less CO2 if they had regulated CO2 emissions.
Re: Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
#9Gimme a break. Compare China's centralized economy's solar/wind/nuclear production to the entirety of the west's decentralized, privatized economy. not even close.
Good, all we need to do is become China and we're set!
Re: Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there. Are you saying they would have released less CO2 had they installed natural gas power plants instead?
Maybe they are saying that if they'd followed California's policies they'd have a higher percentage of their power from renewables and they wouldn't be so wasteful with the energy they do generate. Because that's the point of this article isn't it? To follow Texas policies, not California's, by pointing to absolute numbers of renewables. If they looked at absolute numbers on coal and gas they'd look worse.
California is not plummeting in total emissions either, which is the point of the plots in there.
The only thing that could move this along faster is to shut down fully running and functional fossil fuel facilities, which means that the huge capital assets are stranded and a big loss to the people who paid for them.
There, Texas's approach of private investors bearing the cost of that poor investment will fare much better than California's approach of letting the utility bill customers for their poor decisions. (I say this as a Californian absolutely INFURIATED at our toothless public utility commission allowing six whole rate increases in the past year, making electricity for a heat pumpfar more expensive than burning gas for heating, and making charging an EV about the same cost as fueling gas car, instead of much cheaper.)