Renewables & Storage Hold Their Own In The Texas Heat Dome
, NERC wrote: “Conventional generation, challenged by more frequent extreme weather, experienced its highest level of unavailability overall since NERC began gathering generator availability data in 2013.” We already know that gas and coal plants can suffer in extreme cold weather. The complex machinery of fossil plants can freeze, gas delivery systems can fail, and customers buying gas for home heating often get first dibs on scarce gas fuel during cold weather.
Winter is no longer our only worry. As climate change fuels increasingly hot summers, the rising heat will force more fossil fuel power plants to shut down or run at reduced capacity than in previous years. Thankfully, solar can pick up the slack, and storage will grow significantly in the next several years.
How should Texas reduce its risks in the future? First, it should embrace rather than resist renewable energy and storage. It has rich wind and solar energy resources and can help to grow new clean tech industries. Connecting Texas to the rest of the country would allow Texans to benefit from power imports from other parts of the country during extreme weather. And vice versa; Texas’s plentiful clean energy resources could support other regions of the country when they face weather emergencies.
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