Texas Adds Another Solar Farm as Ercot Grid Demand Soars (electrek.co)

Love to see cheap solar energy getting produced.

It is about $4,500 per home. Turns out cheap electricity wins.

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365168

The article mentions 2000 sq ft per home are needed. Ignoring longitude is that a good ball-park number for a DIY'er?

The Texas grid has a weird parallel with China.

Both are generating more electricity over time.

Both have been generating more electricity with fossil fuels.

Both have solar rollouts that if you compare using absolute numbers with smaller places are impressive but less so as percentages.

Both have carbon intensities that are going down over time.

Celebrated for their progress despite/because "They're not doing it to be woke"

You can basically tell any narrative by selecting your figures carefully.

201 MW for 53,000 homes is 3.8 kW per home. That's 10 x 400 W panels. Seems low.

It would be better to put them on the houses and save the land for crops.