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Starting in late February, over 2.7 million Texas households were left without energy and over 100 people died as a severe winter storm caused a series of rolling blackouts across Texas, drawing national attention to the state’s energy grid. While some leaders blamed the state-wide outages on wind and solar, an emerging expert consensus suggests that multiple cascading factors including non-winterized power plants and the state’s deregulated, independent grid system culminated in the energy crisis. Now, several weeks out from the crisis, new solar opportunities and challenges are beginning to take shape in the Lone Star State. While Texas lawmakers have advanced legislative proposals to impose additional costs and burdens on solar providers, private demand for solar energy solutions especially rooftop solar has increased as households across Texas seek independence from their state’s independent grid.
Monday, April 5, 2021
Starting in late February, over 2.7 million Texas households were left without energy and over 100 people died as a severe winter storm caused a series of rolling blackouts across Texas, drawing national attention to the state’s energy grid. While some leaders blamed the state-wide outages on wind and solar, an emerging expert consensus suggests that multiple cascading factors including non-winterized power plants and the state’s deregulated, independent grid system culminated in the energy crisis. Now, several weeks out from the crisis, new solar opportunities and challenges are beginning to take shape in the Lone Star State. While Texas lawmakers have advanced legislative proposals to impose additional costs and burdens on solar providers, private demand for solar energy solutions especially rooftop solar has increased as households across Texas seek independence from their state’s independent grid.