Maybe, but the data speaks for itself. Texas, a huge oil state, is loaded with wind and solar and is leading the country in battery storage right now.

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rconti an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Texas looks _almost_ as underserved by solar as AZ/NM in that map, TBH.

	▲	tadfisher 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		AZ/NM have highly concentrated populations, so I would expect to see only a couple of hexagons over Phoenix and Albuquerque. Texas looking like that is pretty bad, but I suspect this has more to do with the data set. I would expect Texans to independently go for solar, given the... complications of their power market.

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cogman10 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Idaho is as well.

AZ just has some of the dumbest rules in the US WRT to solar. It's a state where every home should have solar panels.

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peterlada an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Lot of people died for that pragmatism. Froze to death in the outages of winter storms or overheated in the summer ones. Sustainability was the last resort.