Texas grid to spend billions boosting fossil fuel dependency while exacerbating climate change
Aerial view of solar power plant located in Arizona. Chem-Energy Corp. is planning to invest $1.15 billion in central Texas to build and maintain two power plants that will combine solar generation and battery storage.The top regulators of the Texas electrical grid confirmed last week that they will put short-term profits for the state’s largest Republican donors over the future of life on Earth by misleading the public about the clean energy transition.
“For the first time, the peak demand for electricity this summer will exceed the amount that we can generate from on-demand, dispatchable power, so we will be relying on renewables to keep the lights on,” he said ominously. “On the hottest days of summer, there is no longer enough on-demand, dispatchable power generation to meet demand in the ERCOT system.
The biggest donors to Texas’ Republican party own or work for fossil fuel businesses. Despite data and a half-dozen engineering reports showing the natural gas network triggered the 2021 blackouts, political appointees like Lake have tried to demonize wind energy. Lake is not alone in his desire to keep warming the plant with carbon dioxide; he is only a cog in a Republican machine seeking to raise natural gas demand.
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