What in tarnation is going on in Texas?

I'm joined by “Texas Doug” Lewin to unpack the fascinating
contradictions of a state that inadvertently became the nation's
renewable energy powerhouse through a free market electricity
system that its politicians now seem bent on strangling. Bills
before the legislature would require solar and wind developers to
also build gas plants, impose extreme setback requirements only
on renewables, and potentially cripple the state's economy just
as data centers drive unprecedented demand growth.


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