Comment by kilroy123
6 hours ago
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.
6 hours ago
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.
Texas looks _almost_ as underserved by solar as AZ/NM in that map, TBH.
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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.
You're looking at the rooftop solar arrays heatmap. Page down for arrays and panels heatmap.
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.
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.
Here is a source that claims that Arizona is the #2 state for residential solar.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1419901/us-residential-g...