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Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night (thehill.com)

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"The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday that leading business interests fear would lead to an age of expensive power and rolling blackouts.

If passed by the House, state S.B. 715 would require all renewable projects — even existing ones — to buy backup power, largely from coal or gas plants.

This would require solar plants in particular to buy backup power to “match their output at night — a time when no one expects them to produce energy and when demand is typically at its lowest anyway,” consultant and energy expert Doug Lewin wrote in an April analysis"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Technically not about fossil fuels exclusively, as they include hydro, bio-mass, and nuclear in their list of priorities

Sec 3a

. . . undue burden on identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources — with particular attention to oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, biofuels, critical mineral, and nuclear energy resources . . .

In a functioning government the AG, independent from executive influence, could act on this, but I certainly don't have hope for the current administration