The advantages of geography are clear, but they are also not unique. This is also true of the entire American Southwest.
Could you elaborate on the “easier permitting and interconnection?” Are these really so different in Texas? And isn't the interconnection queue a statistic different from construction? I had thought a lot of this problem was coming from federal government environmental reviews.
And Texas also have abundant natural gas resources that are highly competitive based on price.
There must be something else going on to account for that huge disparity.
It is also interesting that wind is doing relatively poorly compared to solar whereas it was the opposite before 2010. I have not seen any data, but it feels like wind construction is declining or stable in the Great Plains.
What do you believe is the reason for Texas dwarfing all other states in clean energy additions in 2024-25?
Abundance resources (wind and sun), cheap land and, most of all, easier permitting and interconnection!
The advantages of geography are clear, but they are also not unique. This is also true of the entire American Southwest.
Could you elaborate on the “easier permitting and interconnection?” Are these really so different in Texas? And isn't the interconnection queue a statistic different from construction? I had thought a lot of this problem was coming from federal government environmental reviews.
And Texas also have abundant natural gas resources that are highly competitive based on price.
There must be something else going on to account for that huge disparity.
It is also interesting that wind is doing relatively poorly compared to solar whereas it was the opposite before 2010. I have not seen any data, but it feels like wind construction is declining or stable in the Great Plains.