Texas

“In several studies, researchers have found people of color, so Black and Latinx people, are more likely to live near oil and gas wells and other infrastructure like flaring. We've seen this in Texas. We're seeing this in California. And we also know that from …”

“Maternal morbidity, which is basically a term that means any unexpected outcome during birth that might lead to long-term health effects on the birthing parent, well, that rate is twice as high in Baytown than it is on average across the state.”

“Laws passed recently in Texas and Oklahoma actually offer 10,000 dollar rewards to people who can successfully sue anyone who, quote, aids or abets an abortion.”

“There's parts of Kansas that are, really, have completely, you know, lost all their water. Parts of Oklahoma, parts of Texas that just don't have that water source anymore.”

“All of the sort of climate models show that this is not going to be the last severe drought in that part of the world far from it. And so I think we can expect that a lot more dinosaur tracks will be unveiled at that park in in coming years.”

“If you're a customer of their electricity and you get a EV and you say, hey, you can control my smart EV charger within certain parameters schedule when it charges up they chop your rate per kilowatt hour electricity by 20%.”

“They had a spokesman who tweeted out an image of a helicopter spraying a liquid onto a wind turbine, and the caption was, a fossil fuel powered helicopter sprays fossil fuels on a clean energy device to generate electricity. Now, of course, the image was not f…”

“The big, nasty bill that was You know, still alive as of Saturday until it was ripped out by negotiators was something called Senate Bill six 24. And it creates a list of places where if a wind farm is within 10 miles or a solar facility is within five miles o…”

“One of the proposals was to mandate that 50% of Texas energy must come from fossil fuels. That measure didn't pass, but it kind of set the tone for what followed.”

“They have taken a huge chunk of the market away from coal, and they're cutting into natural gas's market share for providing electricity to the state, and there are oil and gas guys who really don't want to give up anything else.”

“Texas is the only state in the country where pipelines get to own the gas inside the pipeline, and it allows pipeline generators to manipulate prices.”

“Sean, this shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America. As a result it just shows that fossil fuel is necessary for the state of Texas as well as other states.”

“This is going to be really expensive. It's also going to be highly political because we don't know yet what the PUC will assign to different facilities, but it will definitely slow down new investment in Texas, renewable energy.”

“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.”

“Texas is a state where Republicans dominate every part of government. The governor's office, secretary of state, attorney general, both legislative chambers. It's been that way for two decades. It also happens to be a state with the most wind and utility scale…”

“And it's about a million dollars a mile to run a transmission line in Texas.”

“Texas is an, I should maybe say energy resource poor region of the country, and Texas is an energy rich resource of the country in pretty much every sense of the word, right? And so I think when I talk to people down in Texas, the solar and the wind are a real…”

“Texas is setting new records during this incredible heat wave that they're having for load for renewable output, and for solar output”

“You can look at what renewables are doing in Texas, which is arguably the most free electricity market in the country and they're adding so much solar that they're about to or perhaps even have passed California in terms of utility scale solar deployment with …”

“He had just had a major hail event happen on one of his projects in Texas. It was on a, not a NexTracker system, but a different system. But the upshot was they had to replace all the solar panels on the entire project. It cost over seventy million dollars.”

“If we had been there, we would have just discharged flat out, right, for those four days, and there you go.”