Katherine Blunt of The Wall Street Journal writes that Texas is seeing a solar power boom.
- Invenergy is building the largest solar field in the country, costing around $1.6 billion.
- Solar energy will soon take over wind energy in Texas as demand and investments continue.
- A diverse energy portfolio will still be needed to power the state as renewable’s baseload capacity is typically natural gas.
“It is part of a growing number of solar projects in sunny, land-rich Texas, where experts long predicted solar farms would bloom. Solar-farm development in Texas is expected to accelerate in the coming years as generation costs fall and power demand grows. That growth puts it on track to claim a much larger share of a power market dominated by wind farms and natural-gas power plants.”
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