On climate issues

California: talk progressive, act conservative.

Texas: chaotic energy, but still energy, and plenty of clean energy

This has everything to do with the changes to CA solar laws last year.  We’ve still installed more than 2x the capacity that Texas has because we’ve been incentivizing it for 20+ years.

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If they deploy 700 MW a year it will only take Texas 40 years to catch up with California.

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Lol, that's a bad analogy, as Texas has a ton of wind.

Also CA is a massive net importer of electricity on hot days (from fossil fuel based sources). They also barely kept Diablo Canyon open last year. Too many people here are focused on climate virtue signaling.

Not sure how any of this is virtue signaling as much as it is simping for Texas?

NEM 3.0 is a good thing because it incentivizes battery storage, which we need more than just additional solar generation.

Looks like Texas realized it can't survive after their energy boondoggles a few years back and are playing a little catchup. Also, California might not have quite that much, solar panel lifespan is 20 years, so some of that production might be double counted at this point (presumably not too much tho)