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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 UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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EGEB: No. 1 wind state Texas to add record solar by end of 2022

Electrek

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Texas is expected to add record utility-scale solar in the next two years. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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This old Texas wind farm now makes more power with fewer turbines

Baua Electric

An old wind farm in Texas just got a second life, and its capacity has gone from 160 megawatts (MW) to 182 MW. An old Texas wind farm gets a second wind The Brazos Wind Farm is in Fluvanna, in Borden and Scurry counties, in West Texas. But… thirty-eight wind turbines x 5 MW = 180 MW.

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The US just canceled the second Gulf of Mexico offshore wind lease sale

Baua Electric

Photo: RWE The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has canceled the second offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico due to “a lack of competitive interest.” In response, BOEM will investigate whether there’s any competitive interest in the areas included in Hecate Energy’s request, which are off the southeastern Texas coast.

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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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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. Electric utilities and co-ops like [San Miguel Electric Cooperative] will be able to use our technology to complement wind and solar, and stabilize the grid.” Sage will apply for two drilling permits in Texas.

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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. Get started here.

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