Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night

• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The bill specifically says they cannot use battery. Which is literally the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard. This bill was written by the coal and gas lobby.

  If this passes the solar and wind companies should simply close up shop and tell Texans to buy all their power from coal and gas and see how far that gets them. These dipshits will only learn through pain.

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  • lev@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Texas is an awful place. It is full of Texans.

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hmmm, I wonder how that’ll jibe with the presidents executive order on energy:

    Protecting American Energy from State Overreach: This order instructs the Attorney General to identify and challenge state and local laws that could impede the development or use of domestic energy resources . . .

    Of course the AG would have to step in and actually do something

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    • Donk@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      understand that the EO meant fossil fuels exclusively, mango mussolini hates renewables (especially wind, which has been HUGE in texas)

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      • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Technically not about fossil fuels exclusively, as they include hydro, bio-mass, and nuclear in their list of priorities

        Sec 3a

        . . . undue burden on identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources — with particular attention to oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, biofuels, critical mineral, and nuclear energy resources . . .

        In a functioning government the AG, independent from executive influence, could act on this, but I certainly don’t have hope for the current administration

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