Texas has produced significant amounts of electricity from solar panels to help avoid shortfalls during the latest heat wave. Experts predict Texas will add more large-scale solar power infrastructure in the coming years than any other state.
while hiking in Big Bend National Park on a day when the temperature hit 119 degrees, according to news reports.
“The solar we’ve added in the last year has been tremendously beneficial, and the solar we will continue to add will also be beneficial,” said Michael Webber, an energy resources professor at the University of Texas at Austin. “Solar is such a boon for us, for grid reliability.” Batteries and natural gas plants help in those critical hours before the winds typically pick up and wind power increases.
Solar farms provide cheap, emissions-free power, said Doug Lewin, an Austin-based energy consultant. Fossil fuel-powered electricity generators generally offer their power for higher prices in part because they have to pay for their fuel. They also release greenhouse gasses that are driving climate change, which is raising global temperatures.
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