Wind & Solar Prop Up Texas Grid
More than 40 million people across the Southern U.S. were under a heat alert over the weekend and wind and solar energy have kept the lights on — and the air conditioners running — so far. “For the first time, the peak demand for power this summer will exceed the amount we can generate from dispatchable power, and we will be relying on renewables to keep the lights on,” Peter Lake, chairman of the Public Utility Commission, told regulators in May.
“This kind of heat dome and long-lasting extreme heat conditions are not anything we have seen before in Texas, and yet they are happening more and more often,” Texas-based energy consultant Alison Silverstein told E&E. “Climate change isn’t messing around.”Texas refuses to integrate its electrical grid with the rest of the country, meaning that it cannot import more power to cope with soaring demand.
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