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Thats really leading the way....:facepalm
of course coal and nuclear still dominate, duh. Brilliant find TB
Thats really leading the way....:facepalm
IL ahead of retrograde BigCarbon-sucking TX
Not really. LOL coal
LOL leading the way.
144 Bipartisan Congress Members Request Wind Tax Credit Renewals
There are 80,000 people in the U.S. who are employed in the wind energy industry—an industry that has secured $105 billion in investments since 2005.
At the same time, the cost to deploy the energy has dropped by 43 percent in four years and wind has risen to become the fifth-largest power source in the U.S.
A bipartisan group of 144 Congressional members says that growth didn’t happen without the support of the U.S. government. If the form of renewable energy is to continue limiting emissions, wind energy will need another economic boost in the form of tax-credit renewal, the senators and representatives wrote in a pair of letters to the Senate Finance Committee’s leadership.
http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/24/144-b...congress-wind/
It's not clear WHO is blocking PTC, but in an election year, even less gets accomplished by the tea party's obstructionist DO-NOTHING House.
It didn't take long for boots move his goal posts so that he could trash his own op
So do you have blue koolaid instead of blood in your body?
get back to me when PTC (or long term unemployment benefits) actually get passed.
until then, GFY
lol boutons
Texas sets new wind power record
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdet...-power-record/
Electricity Rates To Be as Big as Texas This Summer! The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, who operates the wholesale grid for most of the state, is predicting that demand for electricity could meet or exceed available supply at certain times during this summer (http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/new...a4bcf6878.html). Texas is very close to a self-contained system when it comes to electricity, with only a few connections to neighboring transmission grids. This means that the electricity that gets used in Texas is made in Texas. So, if the amount of electricity demanded at any particular time exceeds what’s available, the electrical grid can become unstable.
The remedy to this is to ins ute rotating outages, or “rolling brownouts” to reduce the demand on the electricity to the amount that can be supplied by the power plants located in Texas.
Peak demand for electricity in Texas normally occurs between 3pm and 7pm on weekdays. This coincides with the warmest time of the day and when most of us crank up our air conditioners when we get home after work. The hotter the weather outside the more strain there is on the grid. This happens for two reasons. First, when it’s warmer outside, we’re more likely to turn on our air conditioners, and they’re more likely to work harder to get the temperature in our homes to a comfortable level.
https://power2switch.com/blog/electr...-and-the-ugly/
If RED TX had an aggressive FIT/PPA for distributed rooftop solar on residences and businesses like BLUE California does, TX could make a huge dent in electrical demand from gouging CENTRALIZED electricity producers in peak summer hours AND on sunny days when the wind isn't always blowing worth a damn.
Good for Texas.
I just hope I'm wrong about wind power.
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