How blue California and red Texas became green powerhouses | Despite wildly different approaches, both states are seeing massive growth in solar and wind energy.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/how-blue-california-and-red-texas-became-green-powerhouses/
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LodeMike@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 150d
Because solar is cheap AF
No moving parts or water usage is huge.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -7 pts · 150d
Until a hail storm takes out thousands of acres of panels, or tornadoes.
https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-solar-panels-texas-destroyed-hailstorm-1883546
Ironically, even oil companies use wind or solar to pump oil.
int_not_found@feddit.org · 15 pts · 150d
The article talks about thousands of destroyed panels across thousands of acres of production. Thousands of panels are somewhere in single digit to low double digit MW production capacity range. With a claimed production capacity of 350 megawatts this is a single digit percentage reduction in production, after a storm with baseball sized hail.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 150d
Yeah, commercial-scale solar in the US tends to be installed on a mount allowing a single axis of rotation. This lets the owners rotate it into a vertical position when a hailstorm approaches, sharply reducing the amount of damage.
Sidhean@piefed.social · 1 pts · 149d
How common is baseball-sized hail in Texas??