Texas Leads the Renewable Energy Charge As it Overtakes California in Utility-Scale Solar

As per a new report by Climate Central, American states like Texas and Oklahoma are leading the path in generating renewable wind and solar energy.

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2022 saw the U.S. produce more than 683,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity & that too from solar and wind combined. That is an increase of 16% from last year.

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Texas is supposed to go past California in adding extra utility-scale solar to their own electric grid in May of this year. That will mean that California will lose its top spot in this field.

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Beginning of 2023, California was leading Texas by about 1,000 megawatts.

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Leadership in Texas' solar and renewables drive is supported by good old-fashioned energy economics, something Texans are very familiar with.

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Texas was followed by Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois, and California, in the top 10 states with the most wind power capacity list.

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California, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts rank as the top 10 states with highest solar power capacity.

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The authors of the report concluded that the country's capability to produce electricity from sources like sunlight and wind can grow swift enough to support Biden's vision of net-zero carbon emissions targets by 2050.

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The overall solar market across the whole nation is predicted to add 29.1 gigawatts of new capacity in 2023.

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The industry is recovering from a difficult 2022 run which was full of trade conflicts, labor ethics issues, and supply-chain challenges.

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