Wind And Solar
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Wright: Texas wind and solar supplied 8% of power at peak demand
“Wind and solar go on vacation. They're 35% of the capacity in Texas, eight percent of the delivered power at peak demand.”
Jewett: Geothermal development requires subsurface data unlike wind and solar
“Geothermal, unlike wind and solar, where you can measure it by observing surface conditions, you have to know about the subsurface resource in order to have high confidence that you can go build a geothermal facility in a place.”
Ramanathan: Wind and solar returns cannot match oil and gas returns
“Wind and solar are becoming commodities where the returns are not anything like what you get in oil and gas.”
Ramanathan: Commercializing new energy technologies is as hard as wind and solar
“Commercializing technology, implementing projects to, you know, to get it out there, that's going to be As hard for any new technology as it has been for wind and solar. So, you know, might as well try to solve it for wind and solar.”
Tomlinson: Wind and solar saved Texans $31B over the last decade
“Well, you know, the Texas Consumer Association says that we saved about thirty-one billion dollars on our electricity bills over the last decade, thanks to wind and solar.”
Larson expects gas plant capacity factors to plummet by the mid-2030s
“We see that going down into, like, the twenties. Because wind and solar are coming on at such huge volumes in their variables. So you're running these gas plants in a much different way by the mid-twenty-thirties.”
Atwood: Electric arc furnaces can easily run on intermittent renewables
“Electric arc furnaces can use intermittent power, so they're great if you just plug them into wind and solar, because you're making the steel in batches.”
Solar and wind alone would match CO2's ecological harm, says Araque
“I think it would, but the ecological consequences would be just as bad as putting CO₂ into the atmosphere.”
Grantham: Electric vehicles, wind, and solar will overwhelm fossil fuels
“And the green VC part of it, which is springing out of the woodwork, is going to have a very high top line growth rate. Of course, electric cars are going to pound to death The growth rate of gasoline cars. Of course, wind and solar is going to overwhelm gas e…”