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Excerpt (from Texas public media):
Joshua Rhodes, an energy researcher at UT Austin, said he thinks the state will be breaking more records in the near future "as we install more [solar facilities] and the sun's higher in the sky during the summer."
Rhodes said the new record is the result of recent years of meteoric growth in solar installations in Texas, which recently surpassed California as the state that produces the most energy from solar power.
"About five or six years ago, solar became cheaper than wind to deploy, so we started building a lot of that," he said. "That’s kind of the second wave of renewables that’s come onto the grid [after wind]."
There was actually even more sun power in use Sunday than ERCOT’s numbers suggest. That's because the state's grid operator does not include energy generated by rooftop solar, like you see on homes and businesses, in its grid-wide assessment.
More:
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...ecord-for-how-much-power-it-got-from-the-sun/
Joshua Rhodes, an energy researcher at UT Austin, said he thinks the state will be breaking more records in the near future "as we install more [solar facilities] and the sun's higher in the sky during the summer."
Rhodes said the new record is the result of recent years of meteoric growth in solar installations in Texas, which recently surpassed California as the state that produces the most energy from solar power.
"About five or six years ago, solar became cheaper than wind to deploy, so we started building a lot of that," he said. "That’s kind of the second wave of renewables that’s come onto the grid [after wind]."
There was actually even more sun power in use Sunday than ERCOT’s numbers suggest. That's because the state's grid operator does not include energy generated by rooftop solar, like you see on homes and businesses, in its grid-wide assessment.
More:
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...ecord-for-how-much-power-it-got-from-the-sun/
