Check out @douglewinenergy's reasons as to why we should not pit specific energy sources against each other or pick winners and losers – we need them all. #txlege#Texas#Renewableenergy
“'There's a whole lot of demand response on the commercial & industrial side,' Doug Lewin said. 'There's a whole lot of demand response from Bitcoin miners & factory owners & big box stores. There's basically none from the residential side.'" #txlege
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Just as https://t.co/zC4V4PltKJ launches this new dashboard view, at least 1 large thermal plant goes offline pushing thermal outages to ~10,000 megawatts (ERCOT says 8,300 is high). Another near record-breaking day for wind & solar though w over 30,000 MW! #txlege#txenergy
Texas is the economic envy of America:
🏆 #1 for business
🏆 #1 for economic development
🏆 #1 for Fortune 500 HQs
🏆 #1 for exports
& more.
Texas' business-friendly climate, record-smashing job growth, & talented workforce will ensure we REMAIN #1.
Workshop at @PUCTX from 2-4 tomorrow on the timeline to implement dozens of #txenergy bills from the #txlege regular session, incl. on #transmission, #DERs, #EV charging, grid resiliency & more
Staff memo here: https://t.co/XVWtjrYneS
Live feed tmrw:
https://t.co/yXbMDk15Md
When the government picks winners and losers in energy production, energy cost will increase for all consumers. In reality, by doing this the government has picked consumers to be the ultimate losers. #txlege#Texas#TexasEnergy
Open and competitive markets have paved the way for new innovations and technologies that we benefit from daily. The future of our progression depends on economic liberty! #txlege#Texas
Check out Josiah Neeley's take on how #Texas was left vulnerable as the legislative session missed opportunities to strengthen our energy grid. #txlege
https://t.co/n10G8U6jev
#ERCOT grid update: Things will be tight on the grid today and tomorrow — very tight. ERCOT projecting 82.9 gigawatt peak @ 4pm and a spread between supply and demand of only 1800 megawatts tomorrow around 7pm. #txlege#energytwitter 1/