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Why Is Texas Beating California on Wind and Solar?

2024/7/30
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Anne Applebaum和Peter Pomerantsev:德克萨斯州成为可再生能源领导者,引发了人们对民主党气候政策有效性的质疑。 Jerusalem Dempsis:美国清洁能源转型面临挑战,民主党州的审批流程阻碍了可再生能源发展。德克萨斯州在风能和太阳能方面超越加利福尼亚州,这与两州不同的能源发展政策和审批流程有关。蓝色州更注重环境保护,审批流程严格,而红色州更倾向于发展,审批流程宽松。 Jesse Jenkins:德克萨斯州拥有更丰富的风能和太阳能资源,且对能源开发持积极态度,审批流程相对宽松,这促进了可再生能源发展。德克萨斯州独立的电网系统使其避免了联邦监管,ERCOT的自由市场化电网运营模式也促进了风能和太阳能的市场化。加利福尼亚州在清洁能源建设方面落后,主要原因是审批流程复杂,存在多个否决点,导致项目建设时间过长,增加了开发风险。 《通胀削减法案》降低了清洁能源成本,但审批流程和电网连接等问题仍然制约着清洁能源发展。风能项目建设速度缓慢,部分原因是生产税收抵免政策到期以及通货膨胀的影响,此外,风电场选址和建设比太阳能电站更具挑战性。美国缺乏大规模建设能源基础设施的制度框架,现有的环境制度是保守的,旨在维持现状,而清洁能源转型是一个根本性的进步项目。仅依靠小规模太阳能项目无法满足美国的清洁能源需求,还需要风能、核能等其他能源。 Jerusalem Dempsis:美国清洁能源转型面临挑战,民主党州的审批流程阻碍了可再生能源发展。德克萨斯州在风能和太阳能方面超越加利福尼亚州,这与两州不同的能源发展政策和审批流程有关。蓝色州更注重环境保护,审批流程严格,而红色州更倾向于发展,审批流程宽松。 Jesse Jenkins:美国缺乏大规模建设能源基础设施的制度框架,现有的环境制度是保守的,旨在维持现状,而清洁能源转型是一个根本性的进步项目。仅依靠小规模太阳能项目无法满足美国的清洁能源需求,还需要风能、核能等其他能源。

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The episode explores why Texas leads in renewable energy despite its political climate, contrasting it with California's approach to clean energy infrastructure.

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If Democrats care more about climate change than Republicans, then why is Texas the nation’s leader in renewable energy?

Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Jesse Jenkins), an assistant professor at Princeton University, about how the Lone Star State emerged as America’s No. 1 renewable-energy producer, despite its politics—and about the broken bureaucracy that’s preventing more states from going green.

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