Texas is building 3 times more clean energy than California next year
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- Texas is building 3 times more clean energy than California next year
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As a person living in Houston, most Texans are more concerned about price than were electricity comes from. Solar, wind and battery are currently the cheapest. Texas is also going to lead the nation in geothermal. 😊
Good idea - worth a gander!
Well, Houston area is also concerned about availability. That is a huge driver, but Houston area has old gas generators that are near end of life. NOT A GOOD situation. I don't even know if Tesla can install enough megapacks in time for February or March closure of one of the old gas generators.
@@tireddad6541 and therefore I just bought a gas generator. Glad to see someone else is not "asleep".
@@jaywestrick Probably a lot easier and cheaper. Over 20K for a battery, plus electric utility has to approve
Fervo definitely has a head start among the "new geothermal" companies. That 400 MW deep enhanced geothermal they are currently building looks excellent.
All I know is Texas, and California are building alot , a whole lot of New Gas Stations for some reason. These are not Electric charging stations. They know something is out to happen. Government is always changing their minds about something !
GPT fact checker: WRong! Gasoline station growth declined .5% this decade. Due to anger over gas prices, California drivers are dumping their gas hogs for electric vehicles, currently at 500,000 purchases, or buying hybrids by the loads.
Some states have only 5% of the people of Texas, so it's tough to judge which states are installing the most clean energy per capita from the chart at 3:23. Still, it's awesome Texas is adding so much clean energy.
Iowa is 60% wind energy, though it's smaller in absolute terms.
Texas has no choice solar and wind / batteries or horror, connect to adjacent state grids and submit to federal regulations. So this is the only way Texas can keep an independent grid.
Are there NO economic gains to be had from connecting to the rest of the grid. All those renewables, can't you sell excess on the days when the wind does blow and the sun does shine. Is an independent grid really worth keeping ?
@@TimMountjoy-zy2fd When you have an economy the size of Texas's, tying yourself to federal gov will only drag you down. They can almost operate independantly right now and so with solar or other energy, it'll just strengthen them even more and fend off fed regulations and problems.
The secret of Texas grid is it is more connected to the Mexican grid than the American grid. And with a climate scientist becoming the new Mexican president, Mexico would gladly accept excess electricity from Texas solar panels and windmills
@@TimMountjoy-zy2fd "Are there NO economic gains to be had from connecting to the rest of the grid"
It's NET economic gains that matter. Connecting to the grid in another state means that the Federal government gets to control their grid. That's going to cost significant money.
@TimMountjoy-zy2fd The problem is the need for batteries, which as you may know, are in their infancy and expensive.
I've lived in Texas since 1982 and in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex growth has been stunning and sustained. It's not just millions of more houses they are larger than ever and some have 2 or 3 AC units and many a swimming pool pump. Even before data centers (and decades before EVs) the growth in demand was amazing. Many metro areas are land locked and there is no place to build cheaply but that is not the case in Texas, we have plenty of land that is easy to build on. We also seem to have plenty of highly skilled construction workers even when none of the children are going into that business, don't know where they are coming from. 😉
@@frankcoffey From someone who recently had their roof replaced, I can tell you where they come from and it’s not the U.S. And, personally I’m OK with that.
@@mabehall7667 Yep, every time I see them show up I know it's going to get done right. Even the athletic local kids would not last a day doing that kind of work, it's just amazing.
Even DonCHEETOxote couldn't con them that windmills are monsters.
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Am I right in remembering Texas has huge power failures when it’s either too hot or too cold. Battery storages like Adelaide are a winning idea.
It really never had to do with the cold snap that we had years ago but the growing population in the last 25 years so we needed more power plus Texas likes to diversify its energy composition we've had wind power 20 plus years ago and now that solar is getting much better or also having huge solar farms since we have the land to do it because 80% of the state lives in just three major cities in Texas DFW Houston and the San Antonio Austin area the rest of the state is pretty empty so that gives us a lot of room to grow energy farms and were also building out battery storage as well
@@enhancedutility266That's not entirely true. The biggest loss of capacity was from gas, because they don't dry the gas immediately like in cold states, so moisture combines with methane and freezes into methane hydrate, and buggers up the pipes. They had a coal plant go down when the coal froze, and I think even a nuke tripped off line. None of the wind turbines have the cold weather packages like in Alaska, so you have to manually de-ice them. All in all, renewables did really well. The wind turbines that did work had high cold(dense) winds making lots of power, and they did de-ice. I think the snow either cleared or was cleared pretty quick. Texas is adding gobs of batteries, and those always help. California too.
@@fjalics well we're about to add small modular reactors for the grid as well that will further increase our lead in decarbonized energy
@@fjalics You gave an accurate description. Electric Reliability Council of Texas. ERCOT, should lose the word Reliability in the title. Every electrical customer with ERCOT should be given suggestions on how to handle the situation when their electrical grid goes down. 60 percent of heating of buildings in the winter comes from the electrical grid, so Texas should plan for the grid quitting.
@@enhancedutility266 When are these being added to Texas's grid?
Texas is the leader
Especially in POLITICAL corruption!
In terms of land mass and sunshine it actually makes a lot of sense that Texas would dominate in solar energy production, especially compared to a state like New York.
True, but NY could still be rolling out wind.
@@philiptaylor7902 I agree. I think NY could generate its own electricity from wind and solar. And run the whole of his transportation on electric vehicles.
Here in California, we're already over-producing with solar and wind, every day, so the only growth needed is for nighttime use/capacity. Every U.S. state is currently developing solar + BESS, I know, I work for the world's largest solar module manufacturer who also manufactures battery storage.
The Hold Up in a lot of U.S. states is that the customer base is mainly heating with natural gas.
These states will have to help millions of homeowners upgrade to super efficient, and costly, heat pumps in order to heat these homes sufficiently during the winter.
If the heat pumps available are not adequate to deal with the cold then the consumers would still have to have backup gas heat.... so why go with a heat pump at all?
This is why.
A great portion of New York is already powered by hydroelectric. The Niagara Falls have been doing this for over a century. That's possibly one reason there are fewer green projects here.
Gratulation for your PV, the Battery brings you a lot good feelings.
Here in Switzerland I assemblied a 37.5 kWp PV with 20kWh Battery in order to heat in winter with world best heating pump 'Lambda' from Austria.
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There is a lot more sunshine in texas than in New York and a lot more space in texas to put up solar and windmills cheaper land
Exactly we have a lot of land 80% of our population is in the metros of the Texas triangle the rest of the land can be exploited by green energy technology especially West Texas
Texas's electricity grid is competitive. Consumers have a lot of choice as to who they buy power from. Cost is King!
Solar and Wind, with storage, are the lowest cost providers of electricity in Texas. Also solar and wind are faster to deploy as they don't require as many environmental impact studies given that they don't air pollute the area they are in during their use as fossil fuel generation plants do.
35 GW is enough to power South Africa. (solar will of course do that for only a few hour per day). The amount planned for battery storage is astonishing.
South Africa doesn’t have any way of doing things right. They are so broken no money can help.
The irony is so twisted that the most famous living South African (aside from Siya Kolisi and Francois Pienaar) has the world's best fix for South Africa's load shedding problems.
Good presentation. In Texas, the state government is very pro oil, but wind, solar, and batteries gives us really cheap power. WSBs are good for business.
California has shot it's solar industry in the foot with its new Net Energy Metering 3.0 where the economic incentive for solar has been vastly reduced. New solar installs and modifications of existing solar will fall under NEM 3.0. Customers working under old NEM rules will transition to the new rules over 20 years. NEM 3.0 will allow utilities to pay its customers a fraction of current rates. Solar only makes sense when you install with battery storage to avoid the disparity in rates charged for usage versus rates paid for excess energy returned to the grid. Currently, the payback period on new solar has been doubled with the battery storage. Californians "enjoy" the highest electricity rates in the US because the governor and many other politicians are in the pocket for the utility companies. We are screwed.
CA doesn't have enough battery storage yet to take advantage of more solar. During peak hours, they already produce 100% of what's needed. Now they need to smooth that out with storage before adding.
"has shot it's solar industry in the foot with its new Net Energy Metering 3.0 where the economic incentive for solar has been vastly reduced. "
The previous rules forced consumers without solar panels to heavily subsidize those with solar panels. How is it fair to force almost every poor renter in the state to subsidize upper middle class home owners with solar panels?
@@AhBeeDoi Without the subsidies, home solar doesn’t pay. It may sound like a great idea but solar farms are a much more efficient and economical use of capital and solar resources.
California energy costs are fraudulent.
@@jeffjwatts Pure malarkey. The mismanagement by the utilities is what is screwing over the ratepayers. Using the poor as a human shield for a specious argument is pathetic.
Data centers for AI are where the huge increase in demand for electricity will come from. 1000 new data center are predicted. Texas wants to get that build out.
Exactly It's best to start plus with our population growing it helps to grow more energy with solar and wind to meet that demand
@@enhancedutility266 It's not population growth. Your electric utility is separate from the regional grids. This federally subsidized expansion is smart enough to use resources to compete for all those data center big money development funds. My state utility doesn't have that foresight.
Hey Sam, great info. I am located in Southern California and managing major renewable projects with focus on public EV charger roll outs. I can tell you it is all coming BUT private funding is extremely difficult and government funding takes forever. Large scale private investors are scared of California for the same reasons that people and companies are leaving....because CA makes it extremely difficult to do business. Also, land values are astronomically different from Texas and other states with regard to having solar farms near populated areas. I'm also consulting on some incredible private mini-grids plans. The revolution is coming!
As a person who lives in California, owned a house, and put solar on it.
More than five years ago, it made sense. I am paying as much in electricity, now in a home less than half the size as my house before getting solar. In my current home I have considered putting solar on. However California has made it too difficult economically.
Crypto mining is taking a huge amount of capacity in Texas. If. I were in charge of OKing any more Crypto in Texas I would pass a law requiring industrial scale mining to also build out solar farms equal to powering their average daily usage.
In NM, one of the top states for combined wind and solar resources we are just sitting around enjoying an oil and gas gusher. We don't look to the future.
Texas, at the behest of the governor, has passed a law giving virtually free money to anyone building a power generation facility. Caveat, no solar or wind need apply. It’s to protect the gas and oil industry. And, people and industry, are leaving California for primarily one reason-cost! And the main reason for these cost is too many people chasing too little land-it’s not that expensive if you want to live in a desert or a forest 100s of miles from a city but get even close to the coast and wow! You would think someone knowing the cost of living in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane would know this, Melbourne and Sydney being among the most expensive cites in the world.
Could you tell me the name of that law and when it was passed? I want to respond to different commenter with your answer. Thanks
@@markvalery8632
These bills also resulted in a “constitutional amendment” to accomplish some of this. Texas’s constitution is one of, if not the longest, in the States. Read the articles. Texas is one of the most conservative States and u would not believe the lies and exaggerations their politicians spew about the dangers of renewables. Oil and gas made Texas and they will do anything to keep it that way. And yet Elon Musk is a big conservative supporter-I know, doesn’t compute.
@@mabehall7667 Google returns so much chaff that I can't find an article. Could you give the title to one? Then maybe I could you the correct words to do a better search. Thanks
I’m never surprised by what our governor may do unless it’s something moral or ethical. Him and Ken Paxston among many others are absolutely disgusting horrible human beings that would sell out their mothers and children to give their rich funders a dishonest advantage. They are barely better than Putin and if they had the opportunity they would probably be equally as bad.
@@markvalery8632 Google is a mess, has been forever. AI makes things up. Even footnotes. If AI ever becomes sentient, why would it tell the truth when people clearly prefer fiction? As to sentient AI, I suggest you refer to Lewis Carroll. I think it will be like that.
Texas has enough wind to power the whole of the USA. Their grid isn't great and are experiencing population growth due to the cost of living with people moving to it from California. That's why they're building.
uh... wind? -but the amount of sun it gets is not significant? Why do Northern states not jump of solar? Is it because they don't get anywhere near as much sunlight as Texas?
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Sam, you are making very misleading statements when you say Texas is going to lead. They are installing more than the others, that is true, but they are so far less developed that they need to do something to catch up. California was already staring at over 50% more installed renewable capacity than Texas so a lot needed just to catch up. In fact, there are some US states, such as Vermont, So. Dakota, Washington and Idaho that are all above 70% renewables today with Vermnont in particular being basically 100%. So yes, they are making a big push but to catch up.
I love Sam and the content he provide =X that being said, what you say is true =X it's not contextually accurate
@@borshardsd I agree about Sam and do follow him. But in this case the Texas case in particular is important. In a politically charged environment in the US, where Texas being a red state republicans have shown a significantly lower disposition of buying an EV or really thinking of reducing fossil fuels. This change of attitude is being driven by all the money being poured in to support renewables by the federal government. The other states that are more developed have done so because geographically they could with large dams for hydroelectric power or like California with environmental reasons.
The difference is in the way the data is complied, if you include hydroelectricity, Texas lags behind, as it does not have the ability to generate a lot of hydro power. If you remove Hydro from the equation, Texas leads in both current capacity, and planned development. I believe that is what Sam was trying to get across.
@elmojito heck yeah I'm with you. It's backwards how Texas would allow tesla to manufacture in state but had red tape laws making the sale of the vehicles complicated in state.
So now renewables will save the dim lone star state, while the idiots [Ted cruze and co.] Will talk crap about renewables.
@@Interbeing_CDN You are correct that Texas has no hydroelectricity while California gets about 8% of its electricity from hydro, both large and small. Yet California has almost eliminated coal from its mix while Texas still relies on coal for about 19% of its electricity supply. I assume that is the objective of the large increase in renewables in Texas.
Viking, you are entirely correct. I have lived in Texas over 40 years and Governor Greg Abbott is by far the best governor we’ve seen in my life. As you have surmised, he is the reason behind a lot of the progress and growth in the state of Texas. I sure wish he was running for President instead of the choices that we’ve got.
You Governor Abbot Hates renewable but because TX deregulated energy before he got into office he is very limited in terms of stopping it
The thing I don't like about solar power plants, is that they always seem to take land that could be used for building things or growing things. I'd love to see them set up on top of buildings instead It's not like anyone is using the rooftops of buildings for anything other than placing central AC units.
Sir, I will explain some of the problems of why the US has such a slow progression to renewables in two words POWER LINES.
Currently, there are enough funded permitted renewables to produce the majority of US power. The issue is we can't build them due to power lines. The US process for building power lines can take up to 10 years on average. TX moves faster because it is the only state NOT tied to the US grid. So there is no reason to build power lines out of the state which kicks off the process.
This is also why in California it is going well, they already had a large number of high voltage lines built years ago that run through areas that supply wind and solar. So this allowed them to quickly build out the capacity. This is also why AZ is doing so well because they have both local demand due to the retirement areas expanding fast in greater Phoenix and they already had interconnects with California.
So this is not a problem of wanting to build more renewables nor is it a cost problem, it is 100% a transmission problem of getting the energy from point of production to point of demand. Which is why it is going faster in larger open states with lots of land so there are less people fighting the transmission lines whereas the more densely populated eastern seaboard takes longer.
This is also why China is doing so well vs the US, they have a one-party centrally controlled system so none of these local people have to be considered when building power lines across the country.
Last is the total power usage. The US only uses 4 TWHs per year whereas China is 8 TWHs and growing. Also if you look at the key industries in each country the US has much less energy dense heavy industry except for data centers. Whereas China being much more concentrated on heavy industry has much heavier demand. Next is power growth, the average Chinese currently uses a lot less energy, but as more people move from extreme poverty to poverty to lower income the amount of power usage goes up considerably. So China needs to grow its grid considerably more just to get the majority of its population to a comparable standard of living. So given all these factors it only makes sense China should be in the lead.
None of this is bad or good, I just want to put some key facts to help explain the differences from an economic, legal and social point of view. China is an authoritarian dictatorship whereas the US is a Democratic Republic. It's a lot easier to make quick changes when there is only one person making decisions, democracy is slow and messy, but you have less chance of being imprisoned for your beliefs.
Texas has a lot of wind, and is in the sun belt. Not so much NY
The battery in Texas is probably to make sure they don't get sued from really horrible power outages like the ones that killed a couple hundred people recently.
Where?
The Texans are building clean energy because they value their energy independence
Yeah 😊
Texas is also a southern state, it kind of makes sense they would install more than Montana for example.
It's funny I think everyone complains about ERCOT (the Texas energy market) for power outages and sky high pricing at times. At the same time, the way their energy market works makes it flexible and attractive for renewables and battery storage businesses. I think this is why renewables deployed so quickly there. I also have a hunch that in California, the legacy utilities wield a lot of power/influence and it isn't necessarily easy for startups or new energy companies to establish themselves (I could be wrong though). ERCOT is also interesting because it's the only energy market / district in Texas and doesn't extend outside of the state really. Other power grids / markets in the US are usually comprised of several states.
Calif. electricity market is not controlled by utility companies but by a state commission which rules over electric power like a socialist state enterprise. All price increases must be approved by them.
@@redwoodcoast you never heard of Regulatory Capture, huh? All is not as is taught in your 8th grade civics class.
On most other issues, Gov Abbott of TX is pure shite.
They why are so many people fleeing other states and moving to Texas? It's not just the cost of living.
The Great Texas Windrush. A book by Kate Galbraith. Said book tracks the state government policy changes. Governor Anne Richards especially in the early 90s. Texas independent grid is so the former country of Texas can secede from the union if necessary.
The driver behind pushing the policy changes was T. Boone Pickens, trying to save his oil and gas companies from bankruptcy during the oil and gas price collapse of the early 90's. Ann Richards was receptive, but the then Governor George W. Bush, working with President Bill Clinton really got the ball rolling with the Texas Railroad Commission allowing generous flexibility with oil and gas lease permits, and the federal government, with the Democrats wanting to promote green energy, footing much of the bill to finance the development. Rick Perry, and now, Greg Abbott have continued to take advantage of the government subsidies and maintain renewable friendly regulations. It's ironic that the oil and gas industry, that is so maligned by environmentalists, has been the biggest driver in renewable energy development. And yes, it is a fascinating story, T. Boone had strong connections with both Republicans and Democrats, and wisely invested, both time and money in his lobbying efforts. In the end, it's all about politics and money. Outsiders would be surprised at just how progressive Texas is in many ways, born out the the pragmatic approach to both business and life of the Texas people.
No, the Governor of Texas is not in any way responsible for the increase in renewables. He complains, threatens and blames renewables.
That's not true. Give me a single example of Abbott threatening or complaining about renewables.
This video shows how someone can look at data and draw a total delusional conclusion from it. The Texas governor and legislature are fighting green energy with everything they have. But, why then, is Texas still leading green energy development? It is the structure of their “free market” energy system. A system that during the deep freeze a few years back, the one where I was personally without power for 78 straight hours, resulted in a 6 day power cost spike so high that the total cost to consumers was MORE than the TOTAL cost of all power sold in Texas for ONE YEAR. Many energy suppliers went bankrupt and individuals received bills for many $1000s of dollars. And although the governor lauded in this video tried to blame wind energy for this, in truth, it was the wind energy that prevented a more total system failure. But going back to the original question, this market that results in surge pricing every summer day is the reason solar farms and costal wind farms are being built. You see, these installations surge in production every day in tune with demand, resulting in a tidy profit.
What do you mean fighting green energy development there's literally laws in place since 2005 to foster green energy development under governor Perry when he signed that legislation You started to see win turbines everywhere now that solar is being fleshed out technology-wise you're starting to see more and more build out for solar I don't think recent legislation is going to slow it down due to population increase and we need more power since we're building out data centers in North Texas since Google and Oracle are coming to town plus it keeps our grid independent from the federal government as well I see this as a win for Texas energy development we can do more with the build out of battery storage technology as well
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The North East is going to have a lot of wind power and combined with hydropower they will be very high on a renewables comparison chart.
The only way to get coal is by ship or train and in most cases there is no alternate means or competition. Transportation cost alone is an uncontrollable expense. Not only that operation is very risky and expensive. There is no reason to take on that kind of risk if you don't have to.
California no longer needs to increase its solar at such a high pace we have enough solar power to meet demand on most days. What is needed is more storage and that is ongoing.
While it is true that some people have left California for Texas, many have returned, Texas is rated as the lowest quality of life state in the USA.
Texas is a place where low wages and land prices are great for production, but California is still the best for innovation. Tesla is an example of this they moved corporate HQ to Texas yet the Engineering HQ is in California, same with SpaceX.
It’s great that Texas is installing renewable energy capacity, but you can’t ignore the fact that other states already have large capacity. Iowa, for example, already generates 65% of its electricity from wind. On the other hand, Arizona could be huge in solar - easily - but is only 17.5%.
Why is New York’s planned capacity installation so low? It turns out that I live in Texas now, spent two years in Iowa, and 4.5 years in New York. And the answer isn’t complicated: New York is cloudy, and not particularly windy.
Year to date (January through August) the ERCOT (~90% of Texas electricity) has seen a lot of new installations reach commercial operation. 1.7 GW of wind, 4.0 GW of solar and 1.7 GW of battery.
And this was done despite the governor - Abbot in no way helped renewables and is constantly pushing to benefit fossil fuel producers.
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Texas..Energy center of the world
Texas is at the intersection of the sun belt and the wind corridor.
So yes tons of people are moving from California to Texas. The huge reason is Texas has most of the major California industries and jobs without the astronomical cost of living. Also generally considered more family friendly.
It helps that we have cheap land low taxes and low regulations😊
According to the Austin America-Statemen 2022: 102,00 california->texas, 42,000 texas->california
Yeah, but then you have to live in texas with all the disgusting Abbott policies, anti women's rights, insane costs and horrible humid weather.
I’m in OH and I’m surprised we are in the top 10. We suffer from a much lower sun availability than TX (probably less than a third as much), various different local codes and our main utility was recently involved in a big bribery scandal which slows change down. I have 3 quotes for solar for my home averaging $15k w/out battery. This is a nominal 10 year payback. The only solar I see as logical at the moment is commercial sized solar and there is that going in.
Wind and solar are lot like oil and gas. Large upfront costs, which includes construction and distribution, and lower operational costs. unlike other states, 95% of the land is private, so if you want to negotiate land use, it is with the people that benefit from it, not a government entity. Oil and wind leases both need a small footprint and an access road.
I think that Texas got a huge wake up call after the polar vortex that they endured a few years ago. It exposed some huge issues with their grid, and I can't imagine that they want a repeat of it. People died and were severely impacted by it, so they really had no choice but to upgrade.
They plan to corner the hydrogen market. Go big to ensure market share.
It's hard to imagine a bigger opponent of wind and solar than Governor Abbott
Texas climate is ideally suited for renewables, especially solar. Many other states, like the ones in the Northwest and Northeast are not.
Next major product from Texas: Sheep. Milk, cheese, whool, meat. They can eat the grass under and inbetween the solar panels.
E.Viking... sometimes we disagree and this is one of those times... I believe that with increased interconnectivity, IoT, Cloud, AI and EVs connecting - that energy requirements are going to shoot through the roof over the next decade... So I agree with the grid operators in Texas... (aside from my doctorate in supply and demand theory - what the hell would I know... lol)
I predict Texas will try to keep electricity prices high and profit from the cheap solar and wind electricity generation so as to sell as much gasoline and Diesel as possible and maximize profit from EV drivers. Connecting to the Western or Eastern grids would break this monopoly.
California and Texas demonstrate the contrasts of high and low levels of government regulation. Big government in California protects entrenched interests. Smaller government in Texas does the same with far less impact. The fossil fuel industry in Texas would LOVE to regulate clean energy out of existence, but it lacks the clout of big government to make that happen.
Or a very big government like China which is very involved and does better than both.
@@100c0c Right! Why should California suffer high property values and a total lack of ghost cities? The Chinese government serves at the pleasure of its leader and recognizes no other "entrenched interest" to protect.
New York City power themselves with >90% oil- and gas-fired generating capacity.
If you want cheap energy, build solar.
Texas is where the oil industries are. So regulation and environmental rules are probably not as bad as California.
But everything is relative. China has about 10 times US total capacity in solar but only 4 times the population. Yet US consume twice as much per capita. So US is going to need a lot more.
Sam, you really need to look up Greg Abbott's actual record.
I've lived in Texas for 35 years. Please enlighten me with your wealth of knowledge about our Governor.
Random comment here: why are solar panels so reflective? It seems counter intuitive to reflect so much solar power back, when you are supposed to absorb most of it.
The sunny weather is important. Access to the sea is another. Both of these California also has though. In other words, the real reason why some American companies are moving to Texas is less worker rights, less regulation, and of course less taxes. They then ship back products to the states they moved from. So companies get the economic benefits of capitalism without the costs revolving around social responsibility.
If everyone did what Texas is doing, effectively tax evasion, not only would Texas lose its competitive advantage, but it would be a race to the bottom in quality of life for workers. Basically Texas is being rewarded for behaving badly while other states are being punished for behaving good. Game theory.
Wow!!! So not taxing its citizens to death is "bad" while doing so is good? On what planet? By what justice?
@@redwoodcoast
I live in reality? You?
States with highest average salary 2023:
Massachusetts: $76,600
New York: $74,870
California: $73,220
States with lowest average salary 2023;
Mississippi: $45,180
Arkansas: $48,570
West Virginia: $49,170
If you look at stats, rather than parrot pundits, you would know most taxpayers put less into the system than they get. You would also know no state in America has extreme taxes.. if you want extreme taxes move to Finland where the top income tax rate is nearly 70 percent. Or if you prefer to pay little or no taxes, move to practically any African country.
If you are looking for reduced pay, reduced benefits, reduced public services, reduced consumer protections, to give tax breaks to those that don't need them., then vote for Trump, BinSantis et al.
@@redwoodcoast
I come from reality. You?
No one in America is "taxed to death". Move to Finland to see what high taxes actually look like. And most American taxpayers get more out of the system than they put in. But hey if you want defund democracy to give tax breaks to the rich or want to destroy worker's rights, vote for Trump. He also claims climate change is a hoax. He's clearly very intelligent not at all a nutjob
Please tell me exactly how Texas is behaving badly? If people are fleeing a state, then that state is behaving badly. If the current rate of population loss continues, CA could lose 5-7 Congressional districts. CA ranks 1st in wealth inequality, homelessness and taxes. Great weather isn't enough anymore.
@@ophs1980 California grew into the most powerful economy in America, bigger than Texas, by merging business, taxes and regulations in smart way. And I'm talking about rich dudes moving their mega companies to avoid paying taxes not average Joe..
Let's flip this around. Let's suppose California had zero income tax, zero sales tax, zero regulations. A Randroid fantasyland. Do you think any large corporations would move it's tax headquarters to Texas? Get real. People that think this way have no loyalty to anything but their own pocketbooks. They go where they can evade taxes and get cheaper labour, and less regulation It's why they even offshore accounting to places like Ireland.
If everyone was doing that it would completely dismantle government services and consumer protections. So yeah. Texas is behaving badly. And California is being punished for being more considerate of its people's interests not just 1 percent of the population's interests
Governor Greg Abbott is a ghoul, he's in a wheelchair but he's like the opposite of FDR
Texas isn't going to leapfrog California, simply because Texas is already far ahead. Around 2.5 times ahead last time I looked, and obviously that lead is being extended.
The states that are planning for and making the most growth in solar have 1 or more of the following 3 things: Growing electrical demand, plentiful easily exploitable renewable resources and receptive state government. Texas has 2.5 of those things. (Renewables explosive growth happened despite the best efforts of Texas's Governor) Take my home state of Michigan for example. Its growth is stagnant so demand for electricity is not increasing dramatically, and the current resources are meeting needs and costs are reasonable. So there is no incentive for conservative legislatures to promote renewables. Also, there is the perception that we have limited solar and wind. Even though literally across the Detroit River Ontario, Canada has huge wind farms that you can see from Michigan. Granted my reasoning is anecdotal but I think it can apply for several states.
Also in my political opinion is that Republicans which control many state legislatures are against renewables because they are bought and paid for by the oil, coal and gas lobby. Also, most Republican legislators are both technically and literarily illiterate. Ok my rant is over.
California has a great climate for solar, but it requires land and land in California isn't cheap. Texas (and basically the entire dustbowl area) is fantastic for wind and solar, land is cheap, and nowhere near the length and number of regulatory hurdles to jump through (and cost money). The area is also ideal to switch to a heat pump, even though Texas produces an extraordinary amount of natural gas and oil.
Love the irony, the oil State leading in green power
Actually we were going to lead in green technology regardless of oil our former governor put into place legislation to support Green tech build out since 2005 that's why you see a lot of wind farms in West Texas and also the technology has improved so much since then that it makes sense to build out solar and battery storage and since those technologies are decentralized it also increases Texas independence so it's actually a win for everyone involved
Good to hear 👍
@@patrickmckowen2999 yeah for sure it's a misconception that Texas Republicans against green technology this year alone the governor went to a conference about small modular reactor technology to increase even more electricity output and there's projects on the way in West and South Texas to build more solar capacity and battery storage we're trying to become a powerhouse this year alone we just created our own stock exchange that's going to be headquartered in Dallas that requires a lot of energy so we need this tech to grow our economy
California doesn't need more solar short tem. They need storeage. They will resume solar installations once they cane use all the solar power they are already producing.
End fossil fuel subsidies and you will see the most rapid shift we have ever seen
Texas has enough desert and scrubland to power the entire country with solar if it was all paved over with panels. States east of the Mississippi are largely forested, so no one wants to cut down the trees to install panels. Similarly, no one wants wind turbines in their 'view shed'.
The areas nearest the Northeast US that have lots of land and few people are Maine, Quebec, and South Carolina. Quebec is so large it could power the entire world a few times over.
Some US states are already running at 100% renewables: Iowa, Colorado, and Montana seem to be pretty high in renewable power usage. Supposedly Vermont is 100% 'green', but they import most of their power from Quebec, which exports hydropower to the US.
Eastern states will eventually figure out how to integrate solar with agriculture, the so-called 'agrivoltaics'. At that point the eastern states will be completely renewable - the amount of farmland that would need to be covered with panels is a small percentage of all area under cultivation.
Texas leads in renewables in spite of a dislike of renewables because of a much less regulated power industry. It's much easier to build power and battery deployments. Also, power prices are more variable based on real-time supply and demand so no reforms or support is needed to make batteries or demand response work well. Texas deliberately avoids federal energy regulations by keeping their grid from connecting to neighboring states. In my opinion, this shows the importance of energy regulation reform as critical to speeding up renewable energy and battery deployments in the rest of the country.
Texas doesn't dislike renewables Governor Perry signed into law to increase renewable energy since 2005 and each decade The state has to meet benchmarks on renewable energy output and we're meeting those obligations the technology has improved so much where it just makes economic sense to roll out these technologies or even including geothermal and small modular reactors to increase clean energy production in the next several years
🔌🔌We need more renewables in Arizona. The state's regulators are pushing four natural gas plants in Kingman because they claim some utilities are waiting 10 years to get storage batteries, which is bunk. The new Tract AI data center that will begin construction in Goodyear, AZ, will require 1.8GW when it is done over the next 10 to 15 years. That is more than all the power used by the city of Phoenix.🔌🔌
Not much regulation or government control in Texas. The push for renewable energy in Texas is driven by financial decisions in the private sector.
How do u wire up the battery to back up house?
Much of the new electricity demand comes from AI computing centers and moving heating from fossil fuel.
Texas power prices go up and down like the Stock Market. No thanks.
I believe California put in more regulations and delays to protect the monopoly utilities and their employees and investors. Companies like PGE which rip us off with ridiculously high electricity prices. PGE has a great deal of influence over our state politicians. They are vested in the status quo and need that gravy train to keep coming in. These companies need prices to stay high to pay off their giant power stations, etc they invested in and reward their high paid workers, executives and investors. PGE also has huge settlements they had to pay out when their equipment started fires which burned down thousands of homes and killed many individuals who were trapped. I put in an off grid system with batteries to bring my electric bills to zero. It also protects me from the frequent power outages we have when there are high winds. There are many great you tube videos from Will Prowse that take you through step by step to purchase and install your own off grid system. Even if you are not a DIY kind of person it really helps to understand what it takes to install and how cheap and readily available the solar components actually are.
Texas has a ton of empty land. Drive through west Texas some day and it will become obvious. Same with New Mexico, but Texas has adopted the mindset that it is an energy hub, whereas NM hasn't.
It's the Bitcoin miners! Bitcoin mining is highly competitive so miners seek the lowest cost electricity they can find. That is now solar + batt. Elon Musk specializes in this, so between Tesla and the miners, Texas is modernizing their grid gaining enormous efficiency and excellent revenues. We are stepping into the clean power golden age, and it can't happen too fast for my liking.
Is this why the Texas power grid is famously bad?
Electric also comes from the petrol pumps
California has a lot of regulations, but the grid is much more reliable. The lack of oversight that loose regulations in Texas is fueling the boom while allowing in some sub-par systems into their grid. Greedy operators like the lax environment to defraud the public. People in Texas often have solar or backup generators to compensate for their weak grid.
What about Thailand? Will they expand to Thailand? We are awash with sunshine!
Greg Abbott is the governor of Texas and he is amazing leader; a conservative Republican, and I wish he was running for president of the US.
Comments about other states should be looked at ....smaller states like Iowa have been using wind power for years growing ( 62% of the states power needs are filled with wind). The states low cost have been a boom for the data centers ( Facebook , Microsoft, Google, IBM) Some of the electricity is being off loaded to the adjoining states. They are in the process of building large transmission lines to help the excess capacity. Simple looking at numbers from a distance does not give a real look a/
The US is extremely uneven in both population distribution and political ideology. That's one major reason for the disparity in which states are going green. CA, for example, houses about 12% of the US population, while some states like Wyoming have a population less than the capitol city, Washington, D.C. Most of the rural states with lower populations tend to be "red" (conservative) states which tend to fight against green initiatives. Those also tend to be the states with coal and/or oil jobs, so the lobbying to prevent green initiatives is most intense there. The top five largest states (of fifty) house about 1/3rd of the total US population (CA, TX, FL, NY, and PA). With the exceptions of TX and FL, most of the more populous states are "blue" (liberal), so they tend to push the hardest for green initiatives.
Of course they are. Their grid collapses whenever they need it.
I guess the panels are Chinese but they don't like Chinese cars
Drill Baby Drill
Why would you drill a baby? Texas is so anti-female I'm surprised there are any women there. The ones that are must be pretty dumb to live in a place where they have few rights over their own body.
@@mb-3fazeHe's not talking about abortion He's referring to oil production It was a quote that was famously said by Sarah Palin in the '08 vice presidential debate with Joe Biden
@@enhancedutility266lol :) lipstick on pigs. Diapers on donnie.
Regulatory environment
Drill baby drill!!!! LOL
That's an Alaskan thing in fact Texas had to diversify it's economy away from oil and gas decades ago due to the price being so low and volatile that's why the makeup of our economy is geared towards services and manufacturing and now IT as well since a lot of California software firms are moving to Texas whether their headquarters or next the plants to be built.
@@enhancedutility266 Maybe your party should stop saying it right?LOL Oh and good luck this winter with that Texas grid..lol
@@gaim44 It hasn't been said since 2008 and most Republican administration's especially in Texas all favor renewable energy It's been on the books since Governor Perry in 2005 to increase our capacity for each decade and we succeeded every benchmarked that was earmarked for that capacity
@@gaim44 also I lived in Texas for years the weather can be problematic but that's not something I worry about because that's something out of my hands weather changes all the time but at least we're moving into the right direction in renewable energy sources Texas is giving the rest of the red states a model to follow if they wish for their states policies
@@enhancedutility266 You by blaming all your problems on immigrants?Good luck.
California is one of the worst to do business in, alone with highest in the country taxes. There is a significant exit of business and wealthy.
Housing prices are very high. Getting all the approvals takes years and there is a very strong NIMBY (not in my back yard).
Also, regulatory capture by the utilities has killed most of rooftop solar.
Why then has their adjusted GDP been increasing? What am I missing? If business's are exiting, it should go down.
@@markvalery8632assets of those companies are increasing that's what drives up GDP but the real economy of the average Californian It's hot garbage That's why they're moving to other states including Texas
@@markvalery8632 Inflation is increasing faster than companies are leaving.
@@stevesedio1656 :Inflation is increasing faster than companies are leaving.:" No
@@enhancedutility266 "assets of those companies are increasing that's what drives up GDP" Any paper that backs that? I can't find one.
he doesnt understand the concept of rate very well
Texas GDP 2.4 trillion. California GDP 3.9 trillion. Texas is a puny economy.
Reality: California is built out. We're wasting it as it is, and need the batteries to keep up. Texas works because half the state is semi-arid, and 1,000 miles from Atlanta. Loss from transmission? 2%. Best place for it is from Midland to Wyoming.
The Texas grid will not double based on electric cars that is only a small bump massive data centers for AI are being built here the Texas grid will need to double in size by 2030