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Energy storage and renewables are expanding rapidly in Texas’s free-market system, building resilience, lowering costs, and drawing comparisons with Alberta, its Canadian counterpart.
Renewables and energy storage capacity has skyrocketed across Texas, despite its history and culture steeped in oil and gas. Home to the Permian Basin, the largest oilfield in the United States, Texas produced over two million barrels per day in 2023, and has long been a leader in the oil and gas sector.
But today, it is also a leader in fossil fuel alternatives, hosting the second-largest capacity for energy storage in the country, after California.
“Texas’ investment in energy storage and clean power has fundamentally transformed its energy grid,” writes [pdf] the American Clean Power Association (ACPA) in a recent report. The results are “undeniable”: Storage and renewable capacity growth outpaced demand increases in 2024, providing greater resilience in the form of fewer emergency alerts, reduced reliance on fossil fuels, and significant cost savings for the system and for consumers.
Read the full post at The Energy Mix.
