Almost a decade ago, Texas surprised everyone by surpassing the king of wind, California. Texas now has over 18,000 megawatts of wind power installed, compared to just 6,100 megawatts or so for California, coming from behind and quickly tripling California’s installed capacity. Could this same story unfold for solar power in the coming decade?
California remains the king of solar for now, with a comfortable lead. It has about 8,000 megawatts of utility-scale solar and about 4,000 megawatts of behind-the-meter solar, for a total of about 12,000 megawatts, according to this recent GTM article.
