Several records on the Texas grid the last two days:
🔋1st time batteries met 20% of demand (!) and went over 10 gigawatts
🥇 Renewables provided 79% of power demand at 1:10 day, highest ever
😎 Solar exceeded 32 GW and met 65% of demand, both firsts.
#txenergy#txlege
.@ConsEnergyNet's Mark Fleming is spot on: "If unleashing American energy and the full force of the greatest economy in the world is the goal, solar must be part of that effort."
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If data centers want to maintain their social license to operate... the need to BYONCE.
(Bring Your Own New Clean Electricity) @JesseJenkins@ClimatePower
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I'm starting to get the sense that a lot of internet commentators do not actually realize who generates the most wind and solar today.
Hint: its not blue states. Texas alone has more utility scale solar than California and ~5x more wind generation.
Iowa and South Dakota use a higher % of clean energy than nearly any other state.
Texas has installed more solar, wind, and batteries than any other state in the last two years.
Lying about clean energy is not how we address affordability.
POTUS remarks on the green energy scam in Davos were right on the mark.
It’s why Blue States have the highest electricity rates.
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"Redeploying fossil fuel energy is a 'short‑term crutch' that helps the AI roll-out get going, but 'renewable energy is the only way to win in the long term'”
https://t.co/q0q7MKEG9S
"LCOE is bad b/c it doesn't include capacity!"
"let's add capacity/storage/transmission costs in LCOE to make renewables look bad!"
yo, you can't cherry pick system costs to shove into LCOE
let's try an analogy...which is cheapest? think about it
Democrats won in Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia after running campaigns tying Republicans to high electricity rates — and naming renewable energy as a solution: https://t.co/aYzfhW7njN via @whereishayley
How's this for energy abundance? Millions of Aussies will start receiving three hours of free power each day in 2026. This is what happens when you make rooftop solar less than a buck a watt!!
"Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯
Install costs on the USA are $2.5/Watt (higher in many states). 💩
Let's make rooftop solar cheap and energy clean and abundant.
NEW ANALYSIS: 50% of America's planned power additions are under threat from political attacks🚨
The administration's targeting of solar and storage could upend 500 projects and over 116 gigawatts of capacity.
Read more: https://t.co/8in6P9SVFH