America's Oil Country Increasingly Runs on Renewables
Briefly

'During the scorching summer of 2023, the Texas energy grid wobbled as surging demand for electricity threatened to exceed supply. Several times, officials called on residents to conserve energy to avoid a grid failure. However, the electrical grid in Texas has breezed through a summer in which... the state again reached record levels of energy demand.'
'The swift growth of battery storage as a source of power for the electric grid, along with the continued expansion of large-scale solar farms, could not have come at a better time. Texas, like many other states, is facing a surge in its power needs... officials estimate that Texas... could roughly double its demand in just a few years.'
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