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Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption

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71 points seanobannon | 1 comments | 24 Mar 25 16:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.345s | source
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hannob ◴[24 Mar 25 16:37 UTC] No.43462913[source]▶
As 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.

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1. buckle8017 ◴[24 Mar 25 17:06 UTC] No.43463170[source]▶
Articles that try to compare Texas with California almost always miss that California is not it's own grid.

Power in California is from the Western Interconnect, which is regulated by WECC.

Power on the Western Interconnect is only 8.7% solar and 10.4% wind.[0]

Texas in the same year was 7% solar and 24% wind.[1]

[0] https://wecc-spdp-weccgeo.hub.arcgis.com/pages/power-generat...

[1] Annoyingly the data is in an excel spreadsheet in a zip file https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2021/03/10/FuelMixReport_Pr...