Opinion: Renewables are great and all, but who’ll pay when they fail?

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Opinion: Renewables are great and all, but who’ll pay when they fail?
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,” : I have a simple question for Mr. Tomlinson and the others pushing for more adoption of wind and solar generation capacity. Who will fund and invest the necessary capital in fossil fuel plants that will have to sit idly by until needed on days when the renewable sources can’t produce their base-load average?

On average, wind accounts for about 20 to 25 percent of power generation in Texas, but some days, it drops well below 10 percent, which means you need at least 15 percent of on-demand generation capacity at the ready.

“Texas has enough solar to power the world two times over,” Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at Texas Tech,Alas, our State Energy Plan was written by Gov. Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick and House Speaker Phelan’s appointees. They are like folks driving a car while looking into the rearview mirror. Hayhoe says that will work as long as the road is straight, but when we hit a curve — oops.

Texas’ grid is heading for curves. Because of global warming, air conditioner load will grow and we may have another bad freeze. We’re hard at work exporting our natural gas to Europe. Electric vehicle sales in Texas are

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