{"id":22696,"date":"2026-07-19T01:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22696"},"modified":"2026-07-19T01:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:26:22","slug":"how-texas-became-the-1-solar-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22696","title":{"rendered":"How Texas Became The #1 Solar State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same workers who can build gas and oil facilities can build wind and solar facilities, so Texas had a workforce ready to build renewables.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas&#8217;s electricity system allows the cheapest producers to win the bid, so as long as someone built the wind or solar, they could beat out the pre-existing facilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas built a lot of transmission lines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas had a lot of natural gas power plants, and these plants can ramp up fast, so they can turn on at night after the sun goes down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas also had both good sun and wind to harness in the first place.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Texas Became The #1 Solar State\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9hled_zkh44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same workers who can build gas and oil facilities can build wind and solar facilities, so Texas had a workforce ready to build renewables. <\/p>\n<p>Texas&#8217;s electricity system allows the cheapest producers to win the bid, so as long as someone built the wind or solar, they could beat out the pre-existing facilities. <\/p>\n<p>Texas built a lot of transmission lines. <\/p>\n<p>Texas had a lot of natural gas power plants, and these plants can ramp up fast, so they can turn on at night after the sun goes down. <\/p>\n<p>Texas also had both good sun and wind to harness in the first place. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9hled_zkh44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[913,235,1247,1234,576,1265,694,443,21],"class_list":["post-22696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-infrastructure","tag-natural-gas","tag-oil","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-power","tag-renewable-energy","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22697,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696\/revisions\/22697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}