Texas has added more new power supply over the last four years than any other state and over 90% of it has been wind, solar, and storage. Today, renewable energy is no longer “alternative” in Texas. It is the backbone of our power grid.
At this year’s Intersolar North America conference, I sat down with Nico Johnson, host of the excellent Suncast podcast, for a conversation about how the Texas energy market got here, where it’s headed, and what it means for the future of clean energy across the country.
We talked about how Texas’s energy-only market, where the lowest-cost resource gets dispatched without preference for technology, has been critical to the rise of wind, solar, and storage. This growth has helped make electricity cheaper in Texas, helping attract manufacturers and data centers to locate here. And as I discussed recently with Tyler Norris on the pod, if we can successfully tap into flexible demand from these large…
