A new state energy fund will offer low-interest loans to companies that build new power plants.
Could a person with Type 1 diabetes re-grow their own pancreas? A San Antonio study is about to find outPower lines near the Austin Energy /Sand Hill Energy Center in Del Valle on March 24, 2020. The Texas A&M System is exploring the possibility of allowing companies to build a network of"peaker" power plants on its land across Texas that would crank up when electricity demand strains the state power grid.
The peakers are designed to operate for only a few hundred hours out of the year, according to Doug Lewin, author of The Texas Energy and Power Newsletter. Lewin said such plants can help fill in occasional gaps between rocketing demand for electricity and not enough supply. “This will help ensure our campuses and their local communities never go dark again, while adding power to help ensure all of Texas is protected,” Sharp said in a
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