“… sometimes it’s the only economic development that an area might get,” wrote Rhodes, who is from rural Nacogdoches County, in a statement to the Daily Yonder.

RT @MichaelEWebber: The best part of being an engineer is seeing innovation in action! Thanks to the hospitality of @AtmosZeroSteam Todd B….

“My family has a lot of heritage in this land, but my kids don’t want to ranch, so other ways of earning income from the land are important to keeping it in the family.”– George Riggs, Former Pecos County Commissioner

“The truth is that the sheep that graze on the grass that grows under the solar panels are more agriculturally productive than the dryland cotton I used to run on it!” - Allen Gully (farms over 3,000 acres on the edge of San Angelo)

“[Because of the better roads that the wind farm put in place, I can] make it clear across the ranch in just a few minutes along the same path that used to take me twenty.” - Former Republican Texas State Representative John E. Davis

“It’s great to see these types of projects coming to our region. For smaller, rural schools, the added revenue can make a significant difference – especially for funding enrichment and construction projects.”- Michael Davis, Former Superintendent for Cushing ISD

“Wind energy sales produce a passive income that does not materially interfere with the AG operations or other uses of the property. In times of drought, electric power sales continue to create rainfall-independent financial stability. – Michael Manning, Bar T-Black Angus Ranch

“The cows love wind turbines, they walk around them all day and follow the shadows that they cast. We now have good roads on our land that make it easier to take care of our cattle. I wish we had more of them on our land…”– Louis Brooks Jr., Louis Brooks Ranch, LTD.

“Wind has been a Godsend – it allows flexibility in budgeting by providing a constant source of revenues that you know will be there when you need them.” — Don Allred, Former Oldham County Judge.

What do real landowners and local officials think about wind and solar projects? We asked them in our last report that focused on Texas:. See below for what they said.

RT @ColumbiaUEnergy: "We're in an energy crunch," CGEP fellow @joshdr83 tells @climate. "We should be doubling down on everything we can b….

“We’re in an energy crunch,” said Joshua Rhodes, an electricity expert and research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. “We should be doubling down on everything we can build right now. Making things more expensive is antithetical to that.”.

ERCOT showing 70,000+ MW of solar with signed interconnection agreements by 2027!. Energy Abundance & Dominance is alive and well in Texas!. data:

New lecture this fall in my "Too Big To Excel" class:. How to train your Large Language Model 🐲

Link to OG @StraightArrow__ article .

Rhodes said there is some “credence” to the utility commission’s argument because of the increasing role that these controllable facilities have in keeping electric supply and demand in balance. But he favors making information on Bitcoin mining public.

“We really haven’t been dealing with large controllable loads for that long,” said Joshua Rhodes at UT Austin.

Good branding opportunity for @nexteraenergy? ;).

Any other nerds out there like me see “GLPK” when you read something about “GLP-1”?.

RT @douglewinenergy: Texas solar production is up 47% on the year. Good thing, too, because energy consumption is up 6.5% so far this year….