Nuclear power may be the solution to Texas’s electric grid woes

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Nuclear power may be the solution to Texas’s electric grid woes
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Ia Anstoot and Greg Abbott could not be more different from one another. Anstoot is an 18-year-old Swedish girl, an acolyte of Greta Thunberg, and a climate activist. Abbott is the conservative Republican governor of Texas.

Abbott, in the meantime, has begun. He has issued a directive “to the Public Utilities Commission of Texas Interim Chair Kathleen Jackson to formulate a working group to study and provide recommendations that will position Texas as the national leader on advanced nuclear energy.

The problem is that Texas has invested heavily in wind and solar power, the sort of renewable energy that Greenpeace favors. However, during several days in August, the wind was not blowing enough for Texas’s wind farms to operate at optimal capacity. At the same time, as the sun went down, Texas’s solar arrays gradually stopped providing power as well.

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