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How Texas Beat California at Solar
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How Texas Beat California at Solar

Red-State Capitalism Built a Green Energy Empire

California wanted to save the planet. Texas just wanted to make money.

Somehow, Texas ended up building more solar, more wind, and more battery capacity than the Golden State.

In this bonus episode of The Political Orphanage, we explore how incentives, deregulation, subsidies, and sheer opportunism turned the oil state into America’s unlikely renewable-en…

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