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by ZeroGravitas 7 days ago
Texas barely scrapes into the top ten red states by percentage of wind and solar, despite its ideal geography.
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wallst07 7 days ago
Texas produces more wind and solar than any other state, what are you talking about?
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ZeroGravitas 6 days ago
Not by percentage. They're just bigger and generate more electricity total.

So you could flip the stat and say they produce more fossil energy than any other state.

I can't quickly find 2025 stats but in recent years they've been 50% higher than the next state in both coal and gas fired electricity (in absolute terms).

Wikipedia has tables sortable by column by source by total and percentage from 2022 to get a rough idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_electri...

Texas was 33% or so wind plus solar last year. There are 6 states who had a higher percentage just from wind 3 years ago.

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wallst07 6 days ago
Absolute values matter more IMO. Any time people use % or per capita, it means they live in a city. I see this quite often, and it's just a way to skew rhetoric.

Just my opinion.

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ZeroGravitas 6 days ago
That's fine, but that means the absolute value of all the coal and gas they burn matters more too.
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