Texas goes green: How oil country became the renewable energy leader
William Brangham:
Today, the Lone Star State generates more megawatts of wind power than any other in the nation. When it comes to solar, Texas trails only California and actually ranks first in utility scale solar projects.
Combined with nuclear, Texas now generates almost 40 percent of its total energy needs from carbon-free sources, a huge surge in just a few years' time. Texas, of course, like so many other parts of the country, has suffered through a string of climate-driven disasters. They just had record-breaking heat waves this past summer. And this area is always under threat from hurricanes.
In fact, six years ago, when I was here for Hurricane Harvey, this entire area was underwater.
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