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Maybe, but the data speaks for itself. Texas, a huge oil state, is loaded with wind and solar and is leading the country in battery storage right now.

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Lot of people died for that pragmatism. Froze to death in the outages of winter storms or overheated in the summer ones. Sustainability was the last resort.

Texas looks _almost_ as underserved by solar as AZ/NM in that map, TBH.

AZ/NM have highly concentrated populations, so I would expect to see only a couple of hexagons over Phoenix and Albuquerque. Texas looking like that is pretty bad, but I suspect this has more to do with the data set.

I would expect Texans to independently go for solar, given the... complications of their power market.

https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/fuelmix

I only get the following message:

Access Denied Error 16 www.ercot.com 2026-04-22 19:52:02 UTC

If you believe you have a valid business reason for accessing ERCOT resources, please contact the ERCOT Service Desk

I can access it fine (I am in the US). At this moment, 37.2% of the generation is from solar.

At the moment being important. Previous day it was higher at 38.8% but only for that 15min. As a percent of the whole day it’s much much lower. (California goes to 110% in the middle of the by comparison). It’s a good upward trend, I’m confident Texas will get there eventually.

You're looking at the rooftop solar arrays heatmap. Page down for arrays and panels heatmap.

Idaho is as well.

AZ just has some of the dumbest rules in the US WRT to solar. It's a state where every home should have solar panels.

Here is a source that claims that Arizona is the #2 state for residential solar.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1419901/us-residential-g...

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