There's a new November electric demand record in Texas. It's 92 degrees in Austin – on November 7. There are 25,000 megawatts-worth of thermal plants offline for seasonal maintenance. Solar + wind providing >50% all day. Could see a battery record this evening. #txlege #txenergy
82% of new US energy capacity = solar + storage.
Despite policy headwinds, @sg-seia.bsky.social (@solarindustry.bsky.social) & Steven Munson (CohnReznick) tell @solarsylvia.bsky.social why solar remains the fastest path to new power.
Listen now #EnergySky #GreenSky: www.woodmac.com/podcasts/the...
The Trump Administration just issued a new order trying to kill solar and wind because they allegedly use too much land. But somehow this new fervor for "capacity density" won't apply to ethanol, which uses 100X as much land as solar per unit of energy.
www.eenews.net/articles/ano...
Do batteries cannibalize batteries any faster than batteries eat gas peakers? Or than gas turbines cannibalize other gas turbines? Serious question, if so I am missing something.
BREAKING: The House's reconciliation bill would dismantle the most successful industrial onshoring effort in U.S. history, SEIA analysis find.
❌287 factories
❌292,000 jobs
❌145 TWh of generation
Read SEIA's new analysis:
underthreat.seia.org/threat/
"If we want to beat China, we need the power, and the way to bring enough power online...is to rely on solar and storage." — SEIA's @sg-seia.bsky.social, speaking on the future of energy at @thehill.com's Energy & Environment Summit.
Yeah, enough already with the uninformed hot takes
"Defense-in-depth" helps protect Texas from a Spain-type power outage. Spain has 60 megawatts of battery energy storage systems; Texas has nearly 200x that amount (11,000). ERCOT also has been proactive on the development of fast-acting ancillary services.
www.douglewin.com/p/besst-in-...
"Renewables are “cheaper and available right now,” Ketchum said.
California’s energy prices are too high. Here are some solutions.
seia.org/blog/califor...
Cray cray
Louisiana solar project goes online with U.S.-made components #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: pv-magazine-usa.com/...
Right now, these mix of states including Oklahoma, Kansas, parts of Arkansas, Texas, etc. are getting about 60% of their electricity from the wind. #energysky
Building on Tyler’s excellent report below and a range of other resources, our @energyinnovation.org team put together a short fact sheet / resource guide on encouraging data center demand flexibility. Check it out here: energyinnovation.org/report/data-...
Constellation CEO on BloombergTV today: “A new DukeU study indicates we can build 70+ GW of data centers with 0.25% load curtailment… There are opportunities to introduce demand w/out more emitting generation — a big part of the story is load curtailment.” 🔌💡
Does more renewable energy mean more expensive electricity?
The data for the US suggests no. @hannahritchie.bsky.social has crunched the numbers for us.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/us-states-...
There's a new solar record in ERCOT. A few minutes ago, solar exceeded 25,000 megawatts of production for the first time, equaling 52% of demand. Emission free sources (wind, solar, and nuclear) are producing about 75% of power demand today.
"The senior US Republicans tasked with dismantling Joe Biden’s signature climate policy have enjoyed an investment boom of more than $130bn in the areas they represent thanks to the former president’s law." www.ft.com/content/e627...
We Need #Solar and Storage to Address the Energy Emergency
seia.org/blog/we-need...
NEW: Today, SEIA is setting a new target for U.S. energy storage deployment:
⚡700 gigawatt-hours of total installed capacity, and
🔋10 million distributed storage installations.
Our economic and energy security depends a strong storage sector.
More: seia.org/news/seia-an...
Hot tip: if you do a google search and hit a 404 page when clicking on a Whitehouse.gov link, just add "biden" to the front of the URL: "bidenwhitehouse.gov/XXX"
Moment of zen
On the coldest day of the winter, solar came within 600 megawatts of setting an all-time record in Texas. It was good enough for 7th all-time and only the 8th time that solar has exceeded 21,000 megawatts of production. (h/t @gridstatus.io) #energysky #txenergy 💡🔌
Curious for thoughts whether it would be insane to rewrite this headline as: "datacenters put other customers at risk if they don't pay for power and infrastructure to cover their explosive demand needs."
www.utilitydive.com/news/explosi...
"The long-term trend is that the median income for a household with rooftop solar is getting closer almost every year to that of the median income for owner-occupied households." 🌞 💡🔌
insideclimatenews.org/news/1212202...
This is great news. Rooftop solar isn’t just good for the environment. It also saves money. So it should benefit the people who need it most.
WECC forecasts 20% increase in annual load by 2034, double the forecasted increase from two years ago. Buckle up and get to building.
thank you for ensuring that this important work is seen
"A solar-powered EV is 300 times more efficient than a combustion engine car burning corn ethanol"
Check out the slide deck.
Any sane society would end the production of ethanol for fuel. What are we doing? Trying to make jet fuel out of it? Why? Our policy makers are easily bribed.
