Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoThis bill explicitly excludes batteries and storage of power. This just makes it so solar companies have to match their production with fossil fuel purchases.
It is to stop or slow expansion of renewables, as companies will essentially have to additionally and directly invest in fossil fuels to expand their industry.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Very sad. I get that the grid does need backup/resilience power and someone needs to pay for it, but adding a new FF plant of equal capacity is going well beyond backup needs. A simpler solution would be to tax renewable power in wholesale market such that it funds “payments for backup readiness” as needed, and tax goes down as less of it is needed.