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Solar electricity is poised to overtake coal in—of all places—Texas (www.motherjones.com)

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For the first time ever, solar is set to generate more electricity than coal in the power market managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Nobody is building new coal power plants in the state, but developers are adding more solar there than anywhere else in the country. As a result of those diverging trajectories, the federal government expects ERCOT will receive 78 billion kilowatt-hours from solar in 2026, and just 60 from coal.

This trend does have seasonal variations. Last year, solar output beat coal on a monthly basis from March through August, and this year it is expected to do so from March through December, per the US Energy Information Administration at the Department of Energy.

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[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Solar energy just needs to rebrand to space coal or solar oil to cut through the red tape

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

space-based fusion technology

or maybe just something blunt like "fresh, renewable coal"

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago

Jesus would have loved solar, I'm pretty sure.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

"I am the way, the truth, and the LIGHT"

Every photovoltaic cell is actually doing the job of a priest blessing communion. By the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, all that copper wire is actually transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of Christ.

This is the WAY. And that's God's Honest Truth, yep 👍