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Texas is only ahead in renewables by certain biased metrics.

If you instead measure how much people talk about renewable energy, California comes out far ahead.

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Why the hate on California apparently it’s 11th in the country with 43% renewable

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_renew...

Lot of others that could be complained about (like Florida and Arizona)

I feel like Washington state doesn’t get enough credit. 72%+ from renewables and water reservoirs are the original grid scale battery.

That’s because hydro does not deserve credit: if you can do hydro you already do because it’s cheap and reliable, and if you can’t do hydro that’s it. It is thus of next to no interest. Same with geothermal heating.

Valid point.

No, they deserve credit. Otherwise protestors get the upper hand and get the dams decommissioned.

If you downplay the right thing, the wrong thing for energy gets selected for other reasons.

It's almost like valuing an ecosystem is worthwhile or something like that.

Washington is actively tearing down dams for salmon runs.

All their hydro was built 60 years ago, by the federal government. The state deserves absolutely no credit.

It’s not a contest if the deployments are occurring

> It’s not a contest if the deployments are occurring

deployments are not occurring in california, that’s for sure

"how much people talk"

Is hot air a useful commodity?

I believe your parent was making a sarcastic comment, and you two agree.

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