The renewable energy juggernaut keeps rolling on in Texas, even though public officials in the state have bent over backwards to protect fossil energy interests. In the latest twist, Texas has set itself up as potential market for new concentrating solar power technology that can pump out electricity or industrial process heat on a 24/7 basis, no matter what the sun is doing.
“First, solar generation topped coal’s output for the first time in any month, sending 3.26 million megawatt-hours onto the grid vs. the 2.96 million MWh supplied by coal,” IEEFA stated. In another interesting twist, last November Texas voters approved Proposition 7, a ballot measure that creates a new state fund aimed at supporting the construction of
Lithium-ion battery arrays have been filling in the gaps, but they only provide for a limited time, typically 4-6 hours. The search is on for longer-duration solutions that can accommodate a rising tide of wind and solar resources. “Texas leads the nation in energy consumption across all sectors and is the largest energy-consuming state in the nation,” US EIA reported last summer. “The industrial sector, including the state’s refineries and petrochemical plants, accounts for more than half of the state’s energy consumption and for 23% of the nation’s total industrial sector energy use.”
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