Comments on: Texas Renewables Jump 13 Percent in 2011 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/17/texas-renewables-jump-13-percent-in-2011/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/17/texas-renewables-jump-13-percent-in-2011/#comment-121508 Sun, 20 May 2012 11:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38173#comment-121508 Updated

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/17/texas-renewables-jump-13-percent-in-2011/#comment-121509 Sun, 20 May 2012 11:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38173#comment-121509 Updated.

]]> By: Bill_Woods http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/17/texas-renewables-jump-13-percent-in-2011/#comment-121391 Sat, 19 May 2012 01:16:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38173#comment-121391 “Solar energy, while still one of the smallest renewable generation sources at just 36 MWh in 2011, registered an incredible 153 percent increase from 2010’s 14 MWh.”

Wrong units: 36 GW-h or 36,000 MW-h. That’s an increase from an average of 1.6 to 4.2 MW. It’s not really incredible to see a big percentage jump when going from ‘insignificant’ to ‘trivial’.

Texas’s residential demand in 2010 was 137 TW-h, or about 5.3 MW-h per person. I don’t have a figure for number of people per household.
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/pdf/sep2010.pdf (p. 263)

]]> By: Guest http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/17/texas-renewables-jump-13-percent-in-2011/#comment-121360 Fri, 18 May 2012 15:46:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38173#comment-121360 May be right? How about definitely right. There is absolutely no way that the average home in Texas consumes over a million Kwh per year. Let’s just say that the average home consumes 25,000 kWh per year. Still too high. But if that was the case then 31.7 million Mwh would be enough for 1,268,000 homes.

]]> By: silviomarcacci http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/17/texas-renewables-jump-13-percent-in-2011/#comment-121346 Fri, 18 May 2012 13:47:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38173#comment-121346 Hi all,

You may be right about the 31,000 figure – I’m not sure. That number came from an NPR report found here: http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2012/05/16/renewables-still-on-the-rise-in-texas/

]]> By: Ross http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/17/texas-renewables-jump-13-percent-in-2011/#comment-121301 Fri, 18 May 2012 06:50:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38173#comment-121301 Texas has 10,400 MW nameplate of wind. So the 31 Million MWh figure sounds right but certainly not the 31,000 homes figure.

]]> By: Guest http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/17/texas-renewables-jump-13-percent-in-2011/#comment-121293 Fri, 18 May 2012 05:11:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38173#comment-121293 “31.7 million MWh sounds like a massive amount, but it only represents the annual power demand of 31,000 Texas homes”

I know everything his bigger in Texas, but this can’t be right… That’s 1 million KWhr per home per year or an average draw of 114 KW 24/7 all year. I don’t think the average Texas home runs the equivalent of over 1000 100W light bulbs continuously…

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