Texas has a unique state-run power grid, but its extreme-weather issues, and balancing natural gas and wind to create electricity, hold lessons for the nation.
The Texas electric grid operator called on companies and other consumers to voluntarily reduce power use on Monday as the risk of rolling blackouts from record-high demand to cool the state’s nearly 29 million residents intensified.
Read: The 10 most expensive climate-change disasters of 2021 cost $170 billion — and this U.S. storm was No. 1 A push to more renewable sources is seen vital to meeting a U.S. goal to half polluting emissions by 2030 and hit net zero emissions by 2050, goals that are aligned with much of the rest of the industrialized world.
The Biden administration has set a goal of decarbonizing the U.S. power sector by 2035. Only recently, the Supreme Court ruled to limit the EPA’s role in combating climate change with its oversight of power utilities. EVs, heat pumps and more ‘green’ stress Advocates for greater EV adoption TSLA RIVN and swapping, for instance, gas-powered cook stoves and furnaces for electric options, realize any consumer-level “green” push will only be truly climate-friendly if the electricity grid gets “greener” at the same time.
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