GOP states seeing red over green energy
Wyoming is the second windiest state, after Nebraska. It’s obvious why the wind power industry is investing $10 billion there. And it’s hard to see why any state politician would oppose this. But some have. Wyoming is one of those fossil-fuel producing states in which so-called conservatives feel obligated — or are paid — to stop competition from clean energy. Texas is another.
Wyoming state Sen. Larry Hicks proposed a temporary ban on renewable energy projects. “It does one thing: puts a moratorium on wind and solar for the next five years,” he said. “It’s a simple little bill.”
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This hostility toward wind power is even weirder in Texas. Texas harvests more electricity from wind than any other state, or nearly 28 percent of all wind-generated electricity in the U.S. In one recent week, nearly half of Texas’s electricity came from solar and wind power.
The key for these renewables is batteries that can store power when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine. Texas has been crowned “ground zero” for a U.S. battery boom. Last year it switched on more power stored in batteries than California did.
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