Could the Sun Set on the Texas Renewable Energy Boom?

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Could the Sun Set on the Texas Renewable Energy Boom?

Meteorologically speaking, it was a bad day for renewable energy. A dense fog enshrouded downtown Austin so completely that the Capitol wasn’t visible from two blocks away. Wind was nonexistent. My expectations were low as I took a short walk to the remote operations center of the second-largest wind-and-solar power producer in the state.But Texas, you may have heard, is big. Austin may have been mired in its own version of a Dunkelflaute, but e…