Sierra Club loves turbines not whales, Oklo rejection, John Constable, Cooper’s Hawk
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Sierra Club's hypocrisy on right whales, Oklo application rejected by NRC, John Constable on energy and wealth, Cooper's Hawk in the yard The cold snap that hit Austin and the rest of Texas on Wednesday night has lots of people sweating over the ERCOT grid. But there hasn’t been a crisis. Today is cold and sunny and it appears we have passed the most dangerous part of the weather with the grid intact and only a few isolated power outages. Of course, none of this means that ERCOT’s grid is fixed. It’s not. A huge influx of wind and solar capacity, totaling tens of thousands of megawatts, is expected to be added to the ERCOT grid by the end of next year. But almost no new thermal generation. There’s plenty more to write about those issues, including the fact that Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Sierra Club loves turbines not whales, Oklo rejection, John Constable, Cooper’s Hawk
Sierra Club loves turbines not whales, Oklo…
Sierra Club loves turbines not whales, Oklo rejection, John Constable, Cooper’s Hawk
Sierra Club's hypocrisy on right whales, Oklo application rejected by NRC, John Constable on energy and wealth, Cooper's Hawk in the yard The cold snap that hit Austin and the rest of Texas on Wednesday night has lots of people sweating over the ERCOT grid. But there hasn’t been a crisis. Today is cold and sunny and it appears we have passed the most dangerous part of the weather with the grid intact and only a few isolated power outages. Of course, none of this means that ERCOT’s grid is fixed. It’s not. A huge influx of wind and solar capacity, totaling tens of thousands of megawatts, is expected to be added to the ERCOT grid by the end of next year. But almost no new thermal generation. There’s plenty more to write about those issues, including the fact that Democratic gubernatorial candidate