A year after Texas’ power grid failed, state leaders still aren’t talking about transitioning the grid to cleaner fuels. Scientists say if climate change doesn’t slow, the severe weather that’s straining the state's grid will likely become worse.
companies to build more natural gas, coal and nuclear power generation for the grid.
“There are still companies out there — and they are still politically very powerful and politically very generous — that don’t want to change,” Clark said. “They want to do what we’ve always done, make money the way we’ve always made money for as long as possible.” Lake said the governor and the Texas Legislature have charged his agency with ensuring the grid’s reliability.
With a Democrat-controlled House, a Republican-controlled Senate and a Republican governor, the Legislature imposed a renewable energy target, requiring the market to provide a certain amount of renewable energy by a set date. Old coal plants were ordered to cut pollution. A few years later, Texas invested billions of dollars in infrastructure to support building more wind farms.
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