Texas *is* leading the way on wind. Far ahead of California IIRC. Made me laugh when the President took a whack at wind with a comment of how Texans weren’t interested.
The “excess” renewables (excess only in time and location) can be stored, rather than curtailed or wasted. One way is through power-to-gas. Create hydrogen, store in underground caverns already existing in Texas, and “use” it when needed - next day, next season, or next year. - Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Dec 1, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Willie via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 12/1/20 10:28 AM, Mark Abramowitz via EV wrote: >> I think that this analysis has been done many times, and the amount that you >> get is relatively small compared to the demand, AND the cost can be very >> high if you are including solar films for flat roof solar. And many roofs >> cannot use solar. >> You also need to think about storage and transmission. > > Texas may be leading the way. Large fractions of our power are coming from > west Texas wind. And now, west Texas PV. The PV was encouraged by the > transmission investment that was made to get wind energy where it needed to > go. Wind and PV mostly produce at different times so the transmission can be > shared. But, our energy supply system is evolving and adapting. > > The ERCOT energy market seems to be working well. Much of the time, PV and > wind rates are too low but the average encourages more development. That will > continue until low average rates discourages new production. Work is afoot to > make the storage business attractive to investment. > > The system is based on free enterprise. Encouraging many people try to find > their profitable niches with minimal regulation. Right now, especially as > big coal plants are being decommissioned, we need "peaker" plants which > operate infrequently; their continued presence is encouraged by the rewards > of very high rates when they are needed. We believe the storage business > will be similar; high rates when used. Competition will dictate how much > capacity is created. Too much capacity, lower rates, lower profits, fewer > players. Too little capacity, higher rates which attracts more players. A > robust storage segment will allow increased wind/PV development. Already, > wind/PV is pushing coal out of the market. > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
