First, there was The Telling, the widely praised new novel in her Hainish sequence, followed by Tales from Earthsea, a collection of recent short fiction in her other major series. Sharp swings in weather conditions are becoming increasingly likely in all areas, and electricity demand levels are only expected to increase as more car fleets and businesses become electrified.What a year it's been for Le Guin.
However, Texas has also suffered an array of severe power generation problems over that same period, including outages due to winter storms and heat waves, which make the state instructive for other state energy systems to monitor.
While California is losing its lustre as a model for power sector planners elsewhere, Texas has shown it is possible to boost electricity generation totals while reducing emissions in recent years. That cut also sharply exceeds the 2% decline since 2018 in power sector carbon intensity in California, which has had to increase natural gas use to offset declines in electricity generation from hydro and nuclear plants.Ĭalifornia's power system may become even more carbon intensive if generation from the state's last nuclear plant is cut as planned within the coming decade, just as new renewables capacity will further reduce carbon intensity in Texas. Texas has reduced the carbon intensity of its energy system by more than California and the US average since 2018 However, thanks to a nearly 25% cut to coal-fired power and close to 50% rise in generation from clean sources since 2018, Texas has managed to cut its overall power sector carbon intensity by 15% over that time span, exceeding the national average. In 2022, the state ranked behind only Ohio and Florida in terms of carbon emissions per unit of electricity generated, according to think tank Ember. The need to maintain one of the world's largest fossil fuel extraction and processing industries while developing a leading renewables sector has ensured that Texas has become the country's largest energy consumer, as well as producer.Ī heavy historic reliance on natural gas and coal for electricity generation has also meant that Texas has one of the most carbon-intensive power systems in the United States. The rapid renewable energy capacity development is also a major driver of jobs growth in the state, which is helping to offset potential concerns about stranded assets and reduced demand for energy sector workers once global energy systems transition away from fossil fuels. Texas vs California electricity generation by source
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