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Texas' refusal to upgrade its grid is causing generated solar and wind power to go to waste

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Texas' refusal to upgrade its grid is causing generated solar and wind power to go to waste

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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Texas solar and wind are setting records, and the state's grid can't handle it

Texas solar and wind are going to double by 2035, but if the state's grid isn't upgraded, then all that power is going to go to waste.

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You absolutely always make more power than what is being consumed. You need to have overage.

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