Texas has overtaken California as the US state with the biggest solar power capacity.

Submission Statement

There are some interesting lessons to be learned here. It seems having lots of near-empty space is driving this. Solar is being built in poorer rural areas with low planning and permitting requirements. More densely populated places can’t always take such an approach easily, but it points to the fact that planning authorization may be placing a bottleneck on reducing climate change damage.

The battle for SWB superpower is underway, just as Tony Seba predicted.