Texas out-generated California in utility-scale solar last year. 58,634 GWh to 53,713. California spent 20 years mandating solar. Texas beat them with a paperwork trick. In most of America, a new solar farm sits in an interconnection queue while the grid operator studies whether the entire network can absorb it under worst-case conditions. Those studies take years, and the developer pays for any transmission upgrades they trigger. In PJM, average interconnection costs jumped from $29 per kW to…

JessePeltan@JessePeltan21h ago

Solar passed nuclear in Texas 2 years ago. Now it's double. https://t.co/aONCmsNDlC