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> It's why Texas surpassed CA in terms of utility solar Texas surpassed California in terms of utility-scale solar because California both uses less electricit
by dragonwriter 1y ago
> It's why Texas surpassed CA in terms of utility solar
Texas surpassed California in terms of utility-scale solar because California both uses less electricity and has been so successful with distributed (customer premises) solar between the old incentives (now phased out) and its newer construction mandates that there is basically no energy demand for new utility solar to fill, because solar generation already peaks at above 100% of demand much of time, the utility demand is for storage and/or generation that is not on the same cycle as solar.
Texas has less total solar generation capacity than California, and gets much less of its total electricity from solar.