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EGEB: Texas wind power smashes records in March

Electrek

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Texas wind power topped 10.4 The UK’s power grid emissions fell to a record low on Monday. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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This will be the first geothermal energy storage system on the Texas grid

Baua Electric

The EarthStore system will be in Christine, Texas, south of San Antonio, near the SMECI lignite coal power plant. Sage will operate as a merchant, buying and selling electricity to the ERCOT grid. At scale, this energy storage system will be paired with renewable energy to provide baseload and dispatchable power to the electric grid.

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Solar to displace natural gas in the daytime + in summer on the Texas grid

Baua Electric

Solar is forecast to displace natural gas in the middle of the day and in the summer on the Texas grid, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Texas’s electricity mix of energy sources managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) electricity grid operator changed noticeably in 2023.

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Texas installs another big solar + battery storage project

Baua Electric

Photo: Enel North America Power-hungry Texas needs solar and battery storage to help meet demand and balance the grid, so its largest utility-scale storage operator is delivering. GW of wind and solar plus over 1 GW of grid-scale storage. Texas consumes more energy than any other state, and demand is growing.

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Avangrid completes installation of its first solar farm in Texas

Baua Electric

Photo: Avangrid True North is Avangrid’s (NYSE: AGR) first solar farm in Texas – and it will be the largest solar project in the company’s portfolio. Avangrid installed more than 488,000 solar panels at the 321 megawatt (MW) solar farm in Falls County, Texas, over the past several months, and it says it finished ahead of schedule.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

Cars That Think

But you can see, that is the government really coming in and, actually, what has often been a very personal decision of programmers, like, “What language do I use?” So we have to retain the capacity on some level— and this actually is a personal thing with me, is that I believe in the concept of personal computing.

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US power grid boosts capacity by 20.2 GW in the first half of 2024

Baua Electric

Photo by Kelly on Pexels.com In the first half of 2024, the US power grid got a major boost, with developers and power plant owners adding a hefty 20.2 Texas and Florida were at the forefront, contributing 38% of the US solar additions. California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada were the hot spots for these additions.