So the top con on the foreign affairs cmty said on cnn that wind power makes up 25%

[Fullduplexxx]

Of the total energy supply. What I heard is only 10%are the cons conning us. Are they trying to sneak that number up?

Btw That rep was Micheal McCaul

[ProfessorGAC]

1. From Wiki

Wind power in the United States is a branch of the energy industry that has expanded quickly over the latest several years. From January through December 2019, 300.1 terawatt-hours were generated by wind power, or 7.29% of all generated electrical energy in the United States.

So, only something changed radically since December of 2019, 25% isn't even close.
That guy was lying. It's not a mistake when one is off by more than a factor of 3!

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Btw That rep was Micheal McCaul

[Oldem]

2. You mean they might be lying? Horrors! How uncharacteristic.

It's just possible that if wind power ever reaches 25% of our energy supply, this jerk might be out of a job. We can only hope.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. Btw That rep was Micheal McCaul

[Make7]

5. On an annual basis wind power makes up about 25% of electrical generation for Texas.

Although for this winter, under low wind power output conditions, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) forecast only 3% of electrical generation would come from wind power. They predicted they would still have over 5 times that available in reserve from other sources (primarily natural gas).

When people claim that the disaster in Texas this past week was because of too much reliance on renewable energy sources for electrical power, they are spreading misinformation. The fact is Texas lost over 10 times the amount of ERCOT's low wind power output estimate in natural gas electrical power generation due to the failure to weatherize their infrastructure to handle freezing weather.

Overall in the U.S. wind power does not come close to being 25% of power generation. It does in Texas (one of the leading states for wind power), so perhaps that is what was being referred to.

[Klaralven]

6. Wind power is 24% of Texas electrical generation

Fact check: Renewable energy is not to blame for the Texas energy crisis

About 56 percent of Texas' energy comes from natural gas, just under 24 percent comes from wind, 19 percent from coal, and almost 9 percent from nuclear energy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fact-check-renewable-energy-not-blame-texas-energy-crisis-n1258185

[Fullduplexxx]

7. I kept hearing 10%

[Klaralven]

8. That's probably for the entire United States, not for the state of Texas.

U.S. total annual Electricity generation from wind electricity generation in the United States increased from about 6 billion kilowatthours (kWh) in 2000 to about 300 billion kWh in 2019. In 2019, wind turbines in the United States were the source of about 7.3% of total U.S. utility-scale electricity generation. Utility scale includes facilities with at least one megawatt (1,000 kilowatts) of electricity generation capacity.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/wind/electricity-generation-from-wind.php

[Miguelito Loveless]

9. I believe that figure

is the percentage during winter in Texas.

[peggysue2]

10. That % has definitely gone up

Originally, it was less than 10%, then scooted up to 15, 20, only to mushroom to 25%. The Republicans are hoping to deflect from the abysmal failure of market-driven, unregulated, privately-owned energy systems which did not heed earlier freezing risks to spend money on hardening/protecting the equipment.

Why?

Because they're greedy, their donor class are fossil-fuel dead enders, their ideology only allows one perspective and they've convinced themselves (or at least pushed the propaganda) that Climate Change is a Democratic hoax.

What to do, what to do?

Blame the nonexistent New Green Deal and/or any online renewable equipment which they also failed to harden for extreme weather events. Because money. Then increase the percentage of the dependence on said equipment so that their supporters hate on the Dems, not them.

The whole thing is a colossal clusterf*ck during which Americans have suffered and died. Much like the Covid response, the GOP has lied repeatedly, made lame-ass excuses and tried to blame Democrats for their own failure.

The beat goes on and on and . . .

Why anyone votes for these clowns is beyond me.