By Herman K. Trabish | Utility Dive
As electricity demand grows, alongside wind and solar’s share in the U.S. energy mix, concerns about renewables’ reliability are being raised more frequently — including at the highest levels of the federal government.
“With the electricity grid, you have to match supply and demand in every moment in time,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said recently on Fox News. “With wind and solar, you don’t know when they’re going to be there, and you don’t know when they’re going to go away.”
Court Rich, Rose Law Group’s director of renewable energy & utility infrastructure and the firm’s co-founder commented:
“Markets don’t lie, and what markets tell us is that renewable energy projects are filling a key need and winning on price. Markets freely choose to buy clean energy, which reveals that those who baselessly assert solar or wind cannot compete with other sources of fuel, are simply and objectively dead wrong.”
