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Boom time in Texas

Texas at scale: Texas has been only a modest solar market to date, but that is changing fast. A boom started by municipal utilities and enabled by free transmission is expected to lead to a massive amount of utility-scale solar coming online over the next five years, and even more over the next decade.

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Christian Roselund

19 Aug 2016

Texas is a big place. The state stretches from flat, piney woods on the border with Louisiana to mountains and desert in the west, and can take two full days to drive across. It was the largest U.S. state until Alaska, and has the second-largest population at over 27 million residents. Much of Texas is …

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