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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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