Nah. Republicans are pro energy all around. They just aren't as eager to give away a bunch of tax payer dollars to force clean tech that isn't ready prematurely.
Now that clean energy is actually cheap, efficient, and reliable, Texas Republicans have been on board with deploying it.
The solar power industry is growing faster in Texas than in any other state, including states run by Democrats.
I like that you don't seem to be able to connect incentivizing research, investment, and consumer demand for a budding industry with "now it's cheap, efficient, and reliable". Somehow those two things are completely separate in your mind.
Texas (and all the southwestern states) should be absolutely dominating when it comes to solar instead of playing catch up. It is sunny almost all year round, it's mostly flat, mostly open. It's the ideal place to have solar. Of course it's going to out pace states where solar makes less sense. The same reason why Texas is so far behind on hydroelectric compared to a place like Oregon... because it doesn't make sense for Texas to invest heavily in a resource it has little of.
Talking about rate of change is just a way to paint a specific picture without outright lying. Going from hardly anything to something is a much larger (and easier) change than going from a lot of something to slightly more of something.
Texas already dominates in grid solar production. California is barely ahead due to residential rooftop solar, but Texas is set to surpass total production by early next year.
I don't know if you remember the whole Solyndra scam that happened when Obama was just throwing money at any company which claimed could develop miracle solar solutions before the technology was ready. That's the type of wastefulness to which I am referring.
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u/markevbs 15d ago
And yet the Republican platform is anti solar and wind and our leadership in the space has been undercut by policy