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Maybe in absolute terms? I haven't checked in a while. In terms of fraction of energy from solar Texas is still far behind California.

• ZeroGravitas 4mo ago
  They have more utility solar than California as of last year in absolute terms, they're second if you include distributed behind the meter solar which California has more of. Texas also lead in absolute amounts of wind, gas and coal. They have a lot of generation.
  • doctorwho42 4mo ago
    And with data centers (ai) they will not have enough
  • jeffbee 4mo ago
    That makes sense. It's hard to appreciate the scale of these things without understanding that Texas, although the less populous of the two states, uses far more energy, and in particular far more grid electricity, because of their climate, the energy intensity of their economy, their ideological opposition to energy efficiency mandates, and their relative lack of small-scale, distributed, behind-the-meter generation and storage.