Duke Energy says it has a plan to cut carbon emissions 70% by 2030, relative to 2005 levels. However, experts on both sides of the debate have reservations about Duke’s proposals being presented in a series of public hearings this summer. Duke was required to draw up a long term plan in a law, House
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What Happened In Texas
The best explanation of Texas’s prolonged blackout was published by Mitch Rolling yesterday at AmericanExperiment.org. Texas gets electricity from six sources: coal, nuclear, natural gas, solar, hydro and wind. How did those sources perform, and what contributed to the blackout?
[W]e created a reliability grading scale designed to judge which energy sources came to the rescue, and which ones were largely no-shows, during the statewide power outages that rocked Texas.
For our grades, we used average capacity factors over the course of the Texas power outages to showcase which energy sources were performing the best, and which ones were non-factors. The graph below displays these capacity factors.