Texas goes green: How oil country became the renewable energy leader - PBS NewsHour

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19. I never said power is equivalent to energy. I SAID THE POWER RATING OF A BATTERY PACK AND

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ITS ENERGY STORAGE CAPABILITY ARE BOTH IMPORTANT. I'm an electrical engineer just like you. I have operational planning experience where a large part of the job is making sure there are enough capacity to meet the load on an hour by hour basis in the most economic manner while meeting reliability requirements. And a masters degree in power systems. I was also involved with area regulation control where load must be met on a second-by-second basis (Automatic Generation Control) or corrective action taken automatically (usually).

EDITED TO ADD (855p CT): I finally looked at the video more closely

At 2:58 they show a table titled "Wind power generation 2022" and the first line on the table is "Texas 114,787 megawatts",
2nd line: "Iowa 45,761 megawatts"

That of course is wrong. Those should be megawatt hours (MWh), not megawatts. Is that what you are talking about? If so, I am appalled and at the same time not surprised at all to see stuff like this in media reports, since I see confusion between MW and MWh all the time.

As I'm sure you know, most journalists fall well short of the upper rungs of technical literacy.

2nd EDIT TO ADD - FWIW, the video didn't mention batteries or any other storage technology or functionality.