Right now it's about 14% which is half of coal and the trend is going to continue.
Only in California, where the cost of electricity is sky rocketing.
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Nope, I'm sure California will be one of the leaders but 14% is countrywide and it will grow.
Leading what , more income inequality?
Yup California is great at that, California doesn't have a clue what there doing.
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Neat. Yes, California has a lot of rich people who live in the state and because California is a populated as it is it inflates the cost of living.
What that has to do with being on the ball with renewable energy is puzzling.
Researching the situation is not your friend huh?
What are you scared of , don't want to look into Californias carbon credits program made into law 2012?
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LOL The great ultra-liberal state of Texas leads all in the generation of renewable energy.
Texas Poised to Integrate More Wind, Solar Energy
Earlier this month, I attended the 2016 Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Market Summit. The summit brought together thought leaders and stakeholders to discuss the future of Texas’ electric grid. Many of the discussions at the conference centered around the expected boom in new solar and wind energy capacity in Texas, and how ERCOT is planning to cope with the evolution of its electric grid and market as more and more renewable energy is added. While Texas will add
a lot of new wind and solar capacity over the coming years, the grid operator is more than prepared to manage the reliability of the electric grid into the future.
Even More Wind Energy on the Horizon
Since the early 2000s, Texas has emerged as the national leader in wind energy. Last year, Texas sourced 11.7 percent of its electric energy from wind, with wind eclipsing nuclear energy, which provided 11.3 percent, for the first time ever. On an instantaneous basis, wind energy has provided about 45 percent of electric power on more than one occasion. On December 20 of last year, wind
peaked at 44.7 percent of total power generation and provided about 40 percent of instantaneous generation for 17 straight hours. And on February 18 of this year, wind
peaked at 45.1 percent of total generation and provided roughly 40 percent of instantaneous power generation for the entire day.
Texas isn’t done adding wind energy yet. Over the next two years, Texas is expected to add more wind energy than ever before thanks in part to the declining cost of wind turbines and the extension of the federal wind energy production tax credit, which gives wind energy an extra 2.3 cents for every kilowatt-hour of energy produced.