The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without increasing consumer bills

Re:The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without in... by evgen on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:10AM (#23583256)

So CPS energy and it’s grid are disconnected from the rest of the national grid and have no reliance upon external sources to ensure dispatchability? Cool. Would love to hear more about how they managed that trick.

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Re:The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without in... by bretpiatt on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:15PM (#23592875)

> Cool. Would love to hear more about how they managed that trick.

The grid isn't one big national national. Our national grid is a bunch of separate grids. Since San Antonio is on the middle of Texas it is on the Texas Interconnection manged by ERCOT [1].

Here's information on the overall grid generation where if you look at the fuel mix report for 2020 YTD you'll see 26% is Wind so overall it is also above 20% [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection

[2] http://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/generation/

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Re:The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without in... by evgen on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:31AM (#23600589)

So they rely upon the external grid and pass the externalities involved in being being able to dispatch power when you flick the switch to some non-renewable plant elsewhere. Gotcha.

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