https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/u-k-wind-drought-heads-into-9th-day-with-no-relief-for-weeks
Texas will require fossil fueled and nuclear power plants to meet demand when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. Electricity users will have to pay for the plants to be available when the renewables are not.
Logic says that paying for two different sets of generating plants is not cheaper than one. So even though renewables are touted to be cheaper, with subsidies, electricty will not be cheaper as rate payers have to pay for the tranmission lines from West Texas as well as the renewable energy.
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