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Addressing the Environmental Challenges of Wind, Solar, and Energy Storage in Texas

Addressing the Environmental Challenges of Wind, Solar, and Energy Storage in Texas Written by: Brent Bennett, Ph.D. and Cullen Neely Download the full paper here. Key Points Using wind and solar to produce electricity requires 22 times more land for wind and roughly seven times more land for solar than comparable fossil fuel generation resources....

Fool Me Twice: Why the Texas Grid is Still Vulnerable to Winter Storms | Part 3: How Texas Can Solve Its Winter Reliability Problem

Part 3: How Texas Can Solve Its Winter Reliability Problem Five years after Winter Storm Uri, the ERCOT grid is still not ready for the next major winter storm. The first two installments of this series showed that demand has grown more than 20% since 2021 while firm generation capacity has barely budged, and the...

Forecasting the Future of the ERCOT Grid, Part 1: The Ongoing Winter Reliability Challenge

Forecasting the Future of the ERCOT Grid, Part 1: The Ongoing Winter Reliability Challenge Written By: Michael Reed and Brent Bennett, Ph.D. Download the full research paper here. Key Points While the operational performance of the ERCOT grid has improved since Winter Storm Uri in 2021, the increasing reliance of the grid on wind, solar,...