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Environment & Energy

Rhiannon12866

(224,367 posts) Tue Dec 5, 2023, 03:59 AM Dec 2023

Texas goes green: How oil country became the renewable energy leader - PBS NewsHour [View all]

One of the big announcements at the UN climate conference this weekend in Dubai was a pledge by more than 110 countries to triple the amount of renewable energy they are generating by 2030. That work is already underway in a rather unlikely place. William Brangham reports in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center and with support from the Pulitzer Center. - Aired on 12/04/2023.

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Texas goes green: How oil country became the renewable energy leader - PBS NewsHour [View all] Rhiannon12866 Dec 2023 OP

K&R Think. Again. Dec 2023 #1

The Texas legislature and no doubt the governor are not happy about this woke power stuff progree Dec 2023 #2

The condundrum that renewable energy hating Texas politicians find themselves in... Finishline42 Dec 2023 #3

Batteries store eneregy, not power. Progressive dog Dec 2023 #5

They deliver their rated power for a few hours, typically 4 hours or so from articles I've read progree Dec 2023 #6

The bttery cost is approximately proportional to Progressive dog Dec 2023 #7

The power rating is also important. A battery could store a gazillion GWH of energy, but if it can only deliver progree Dec 2023 #8

It takes exactly the same amount Progressive dog Dec 2023 #9

I've been in the power supply planning and superintendant of operational planning of an electric utility for many years progree Dec 2023 #10

Battery back up is not for minute long outages. Progressive dog Dec 2023 #11

No, but other already online generation (and batteries) can be ramped up (the spinning reserve) . And gas turbines can progree Dec 2023 #12

Texas had an avoidable power failure in 2021 Progressive dog Dec 2023 #14

I'm not claiming that battery backup is a good solution to all power system issues progree Dec 2023 #15

So 24 hours of the shortfall in Germany Progressive dog Dec 2023 #18

Of course Powerwalls specify the energy storage. progree Dec 2023 #20

They cannot say trhat power is equivalent to energy Progressive dog Dec 2023 #17

I never said power is equivalent to energy. I SAID THE POWER RATING OF A BATTERY PACK AND progree Dec 2023 #19

NREL: The Four Phases of Storage Deployment: A Framework for the Expanding Role of Storage in the U.S. Power System OKIsItJustMe Dec 2023 #16

Texas is not going green. hunter Dec 2023 #4

Texas Net Electricity Generation by Source, Jun. 2023 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2023 #13