Some of it is just having a lot more wind, which sure helps when it comes to wind power. Texas's 50m wind-resources are somewhere around 20x California's [1], m

Some of it is just having a lot more wind, which sure helps when it comes to wind power. Texas's 50m wind-resources are somewhere around 20x California's [1], mostly because the usable generation area in Texas is across a huge area, while in California it's limited to some areas of the Sierra Nevada [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_generation_potential_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_generation_potential_in_th... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Wind_Potential.gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Wind_Potential.gif