Inside Clean Energy: Texas Is the Country's Clean Energy Leader, Almost in Spite of Itself [insideclimatenews.org]

Jenna Quinn (PACEs Connection Staff) 2/18/224:00 AM

By Dan Gearino, Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images, February 17, 2022

In the race to build renewable energy projects in 2021, Texas lapped the competition.

The state had 7,352 megawatts of new wind, solar and energy storage projects come online during the year, according to a report issued this week by the American Clean Power Association, a trade group.

The runner-up, California, brought 2,697 megawatts online.

But what got my attention wasn’t Texas’ dominance in 2021. It was that Texas also is the leader when ranking the states on how much wind, solar and storage they have under construction or in advanced development; Texas has 19,918 megawatts, followed in the distance by California, with 13,663 megawatts.

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