Texas, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Shayle Kann 87Stephen Lacey 31Lara Pierpoint 14Dr. Michael Webber 9Ben Hertz-Shargel 7Nat Bullard 6Sean McAvoy 5Brian Janous 5Ahmad Ghahreman 4Zach Dell 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Texas comes up
2023 trends: biomass, ESG, batteries and more
- ▶ 27:19 Nat Bullard Traipse in front of like local regulatory bodies and courts in Texas and stick up for your ESG policies.
Introducing: With Great Power, a show about the people building the future grid
- ▶ 4:16 Brad Langley So they invited all the car salesmen out to a barbecue lunch, because who doesn't love barbecue in Texas, with Austin's mayor, and talked about how to sell EVs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:04 Carl Popham So here in Texas, when we look at peaks, it's about summer peaks in the afternoon.
Natural gas whiplash
- ▶ 11:38 Anne-Sophie Corbeau Texas freeze, when the Henry of gas prices went through the roof, because again, you know, suddenly we had a very strange, abnormal weather event, which really sent gas prices again through the roof.
- ▶ 15:57 Shayle Kann And as you said, there were a bunch of, you know, you call them weird, strange, semi-anomalous weather events, but as climate change progresses, presumably those types of things, whether it is a drought in China or a heat wave in the…
Ammonia: the beer of decarbonization
- ▶ 10:23 Julio Friedmann There's a second smaller one that runs actually from the panhandle of Texas into the Corn Belt, and for the same reasons.
- ▶ 44:22 Julio Friedmann Uh, we did a study looking at an example in Galveston, Texas, and to move a million tons of ammonia a year,
Getting more energy on the wires
- ▶ 2:42 Lara Pierpoint We need more transmission to support renewables and electrification, but this is also about keeping the lights on and keeping people alive, and we saw this in moments of extreme stress over the last few years from heat in California to…
- ▶ 13:11 Lara Pierpoint We've got the Eastern Interconnect, the Western Interconnect, and then Texas as its own special flower.
- ▶ 15:57 Lara Pierpoint Well, so let's talk about Texas for a second, because as you mentioned, Texas kind of bucks that trend, and so they've got their own grid with relatively few interconnects, and there's some good reasons why they chose that, right? 10 times in the scene
How the US climate bill will finance the energy transition [partner content]
- ▶ 12:04 Britta von Ossen Um, I think projections have them increasing something like three times over the next 18 months, um, primarily driven by markets like California and Texas.
Is the Inflation Reduction Act a win for EVs and batteries?
Averting water wars as we decarbonize
- ▶ 17:02 Dr. Michael Webber It's a lot cheaper in other parts of the United States because water is scarce in Texas, so it's expensive.
- ▶ 20:31 Dr. Michael Webber In parts of California, and inland Texas, and Israel, and Australia.
- ▶ 25:16 Dr. Michael Webber Or if it's too cold, you get ice formations, and your power plants will fail like happened in Texas in February, 20, 21. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:53 Dr. Michael Webber Mysterious in places like Texas where they treat the water below ground as part of the occult or something like that.
Could geothermal become a major zero-emissions player?
- ▶ 15:58 Jamie Beard There's a project in Texas, for instance, that's, you know, that's using supercritical CO₂ as the working fluid.
- ▶ 59:19 Jamie Beard For, if you go to Texas and you ask about geothermal, it's energy security, it's workforce development, it's these sorts of things, right?
Hydrogen, meet salt cavern
- ▶ 11:38 Shayle Kann It's the Texas phenomenon. 2 times in the scene
Carbon capture and storage is making a comeback
- ▶ 10:38 Dr. Chris Bataille A company in Texas called NetPower that is getting pure CO₂ out of the back end of an electricity generation plant, but it's because the working fluid is not air.
What the grid can learn from the internet
- ▶ 10:22 Astrid Atkinson Um, and in other places like Texas, there's definitely been some major outages in the last
A critical tool for scaling climate tech: insurance
- ▶ 32:37 Jeff McCauley In, in Texas or even going back in, in New York or the mid-Atlantic, and certainly in California, there's an opportunity for distributed generation to increase resiliency. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:47 Jeff McCauley And even in some of the Texas outages, in general, the renewable, renewable energy assets tended to perform better than the gas or thermal assets.
The future of the home solar market
- ▶ 17:18 Mary Powell So again, when I think about customers that we have started working with in Texas, in California, so much of the motivation is about feeling, you know, honestly, just more emotionally safe in your own home. 2 times in the scene
Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen
- ▶ 11:53 Jigar Shah As of 2013, none of them had had Sox and Nox scrubbers on them, so the people who lived in those communities nearby were breathing in some of the most polluted air in the country, mostly in Louisiana and Texas.
- ▶ 20:39 Jigar Shah You see all of the, the battery storage deals that are getting debt funded in Texas on ERCOT merchant curves.
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