The low costs of developing renewable energy infrastructure have allowed Texas to lead the nation in its deployment of clean energy. But soon the cost of doing business with new tariffs and rules might stall the industry’s ability to churn out the cheap power that’s contributed to Texas’ economic growth in recent years, according to developers and experts.
“There’s a lot of concern,” said Doug Lewin, a Texas energy consultant. “I think that that concern is across just about every generation technology, whether it be gas turbines, wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, all of that stuff has global supply chains and large tariffs on that stuff will almost certainly cause power prices to go up.”
The threats set to affect renewable energy players in Texas don’t come solely from the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump that disrupted much of the U.S. economy, but also from rules being decided in…
