Texas has enough wind and solar power to phase out coal entirely. There’s just one huge catch.
Tristan Bove - Yesterday 5:44 PM
Wind and solar power are growing fast in Texas.
So fast, in fact, that it would only take one third of the solar and wind energy projects that have already been proposed could almost entirely phase out coal in the state, according to a new study by researchers at Houston's Rice University.
That’s huge news, considering President Joe Biden's goal for the U.S. to have a carbon-free power sector by 2035.
But there is a huge catch: The state’s energy grid is a mess, and it is standing in the way of a faster transition in Texas away from coal and towards renewables.
"Transmission lines are the leading bottleneck that is slowing down the growth of wind and solar," Daniel Cohan, one of the study's co-authors, told Fortune.
The energy-rich state
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