??? you missed the memo. It wasn't renewables that caused the blackouts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...change-rcna289
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In Texas, the center of a wave of outages across the Southern and central parts of the U.S., the primary electric grid suffered a one-two punch wrought by the deep freeze: off-the-charts demand for power as Texans tried to heat their homes and power plants that simply failed to produce power when people needed it the most.
Wind and solar, still fairly small slices of the state's energy mix, played only a minimal role in the sudden power shortage, utility officials said — contrary to a wave of conservative critics who tried to falsely pin blame for the situation on renewable energy.
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At least their pockets will be warm, they are well lined.
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The picture of what went wrong in Texas is incomplete. But while some wind generators did go offline as turbines iced over, the state's largest grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, said the shortage was driven by a failure not of renewable sources but of traditional "thermal" sources: coal, nuclear and especially natural gas.
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Nuclear too. Didn't expect that at all.
So nothing to do with Biden and Harris. They are still cleaning up the White house anyway, they had no hand in this crisis for good or for bad.
Even under the Trump administration over 75% of all new power generation plants were solar or wind, just because they are now more cost efficient. Economics beat everything. It is the same in Europe.
So why stimulate renewables then, if it happens anyway? Because we just need more power fast.
Overcapacity is not a waste, it is an insurance, like an army in peacetime is.
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