Texas A&M Atmospheric Sciences Professor on ERCOT

What is happening? This week in Texas, ERCOT issued a public statement on July 10 for Texans on conserving energy, and a Texas A&M Atmospheric Sciences Professor made statements about solving the situation with more solar.

Why is this important? The A&M professor made the following statements:

• ERCOT statement was intentionally misleading to Texans
• it is very normal to have a low amount of wind
• only one way to solve the problem of Texas’ power grid: Solar energy.
• Solar produces power when wind doesn’t and they tend to be anti-correlated. So if you want to have reliable power, you want to have wind and solar
• building more solar energy into the Texas power grid would reduce the cost of energy over
• wouldn’t be pollution in the air from solar energy

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