[rstrahan]

Texas has had brownouts when the wind stopped blowing in the summer.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Texas has also had negative spot prices for wind power because they couldn’t turn it down. “Non-dispatchable” power is a very hard way to run a utility.

[hadaclueonce]

Your statement about Texas brown outs in summer is not true.
Are you from NYC?

[Skepolitic]

Texas has also had NEGATIVE wholesale electricity prices on autumn nights when demand was at a minimum. It costs money to shut down a generator — even a wind turbine — but they need a load.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2015/09/texas_electricity_goes_negative_wind_power_was_so_plentiful_one_night_that.html

Wind is an absurd source of electric energy for most places on the planet. Solar technology is nowhere near to being an economic source of electric energy for most places. (There are exceptions, e.g., African villages where households only have adequate power to light a few LEDs per household and charge cell phones. Solar could offer an interim improvement until the infrastructure for real electric power could be built.)