Texas Leads in Solar and Wind Power Deployment

Friday Fact or Fake? 🤔 It is officially Springtime here, so here’s your Solar- energy challenge, there is one answer that is correct: A. Solar energy produces roughly 5% of the world’s electrical energy need. B. Scientists have proven that even a single microgrid can power an entire neighborhood uninterrupted for 72 hours. C. By 2050, the US forecast says wind power alone could supply the entirety of its electric grid. Reply with "PIRS!", and your answer. Don’t forget to tag that colleague who’ll defend anything on the grid! #FridayFactorFake #HappyFriday #EnergyTransition #RenewableEnergy #SolarEnergy #WindPower #Microgrids #PowerGrid

We don't just need more renewables; we need them for longer. 🔋🌑 With solar and wind pushing saturation, '100 hours of storage' is the new industry target. We are watching the first utility-scale iron-air battery projects break ground in the U.S. and EU this week. While lithium moves EVs, iron is moving the grid—providing the baseload-like reliability that wind and solar can't do alone. This is the stabilization 2026 has been waiting for. #LongDurationStorage #EnergyTransition2026 #GridReliability #LDS

New data shows two interesting trends happening at the same time: renewables are growing, but U.S. natural gas consumption just hit a record high. This isn't a conflict, it's a reality check on the need for reliable, on-demand power to keep the grid stable. As we add more intermittent sources, the importance of firm generation becomes even more clear. This suggests natural gas is not just a bridge fuel, but a foundational part of the energy mix for years to come. How should energy policy better balance the goals of decarbonization with the practical need for grid reliability? #EnergyPolicy, #NaturalGas, #GridReliability, #EnergyTransition, #Electrification Source Article: https://lnkd.in/gRJQqvsY

Happy Friday! 🌤️ Somewhere out there, a solar field just came online. A wind turbine is spinning for the first time. A deal closed that'll power thousands of homes. Little reminders of why I love this industry. Not connected yet? Let's change that. 👋 #RenewableEnergy #HappyFriday #CleanEnergy

Everyone loves posting new wind capacity. No one loves talking about the power that never gets delivered. At this point, curtailment is one of the biggest blind spots in the transition. • We’re scaling wind faster than grids can absorb it. • “Installed MW” makes great headlines. Delivered MWh is what actually powers homes and businesses. • Curtailment isn’t a wind failure. It’s a system design failure: grid constraints, weak planning, not enough flexibility. The next winners in energy won’t be the ones with the most turbines. They’ll be the ones who can move, store, and dispatch power intelligently. Question for your team today: Are you optimizing for capacity on paper — or electricity delivered in real life? #windenergy #energytransition #renewables

When you're in a hole, digging is a famously bad solution. Europe imports 90% of its fossil fuels. Displacing those imports with renewable energy, flexible grids and electrification is a better strategy than continuing to depend on fuels dug out of the ground on the other side of the world. Time to turn coal back on? Double down on gas from new vendors? Microsoft's VP for Energy sees a better way: "Wind and solar as ... part of that mix, is a huge benefit from the standpoint of price stability, because once you install it you have more certainty around what that actual cost profile looks like." And certainty offers no shortage of added value right now. https://lnkd.in/e-5t5g4s

Great to see that wind power is increasingly helping to maintain stability of our power supply. Wind projects also provide cost-effective back-up capacity with projects winning in the recent UK Capacity Market auctions. 🌬️ Flexibility is becoming essential for a stable and modern electricity system and wind power is increasingly part of the solution. Thanks to major technological advances, wind power today delivers far more than clean electricity. Wind farms now actively support grid stability, quickly adjusting output to market needs and wind conditions. Advanced power electronics and batteries are further increasing their system value. What this means in practice: • Fast up‑ and down‑regulation of production • Active contribution to grid stability and balance • Power electronics enabling precise grid support • Batteries increasing flexibility and system value Wind power is becoming a cornerstone of a resilient energy system. 👉 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eqNwqzq8 #Vattenfall #Flexibility #Batteries #Windpower

As we all feel the impacts of the rapidly rising cost of energy -- particularly of gas, oil and natural gas in recent weeks -- it's helpful to be reminded that the cost of #solar and #wind energy has gone DOWN over the last 15 years, even as more US energy is generated by #cleanenergy. Investing in more clean energy seems to be a no-brainer, at least to me. Interesting study by Climate Central (article in comments).