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Texas' refusal to upgrade its grid is causing generated solar and wind power to go to waste (electrek.co)
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[–] money_loo@1337lemmy.com 29 points 1 year ago

What does this mean?

The author is simply sharing a report from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) about inefficiencies in the Texas grid and how it’s structured.

Texas has their own plan to rely more on oil and older technologies, so if anyone needs to see this, it’s Texas.

This report may be meaningless to certain Texas politicians, but it’s certainly not worthless in general.