Texas goes green: How oil country became the renewable energy leader - PBS NewsHour

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2. The Texas legislature and no doubt the governor are not happy about this woke power stuff

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/12/texas-power-grid-batteries/

... Three years ago, the state grid, managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, hardly had any battery power. The number has quickly increased, from 275 megawatts in 2020 to more than 3,500 operating on the grid today, and by the end of 2024, upwards of 10,000 megawatts are expected to be available. The decreasing cost of producing batteries and tax incentives through the federal Inflation Reduction Act are helping to make them more economical to build and operate, developers say.

...The Legislature ... excluded solar, wind and battery storage from property tax benefits passed through the Texas Jobs, Energy, Technology and Innovation Act in May. The new law provides 10-year reductions on school taxes to new business developments including oil and natural gas. Despite being locked out of the new program, battery development is still accelerating.

Jerks. No doubt for ideological reasons.

All emphasis added by Progree