Danny Lynch, site manager, walks through a battery storage yard Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the Blue Jay solar and storage plant in Iola. In Texas, the rapid growth of battery storage is driven by the ease of building energy projects and making money in the state’s business-friendly environment.

Wind turbines producing energy behind a cotton field Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Mart. ERCOT and clean energy developers disagree on how to remedy flaws in some resources that could lead to "immediate catastrophic grid failure."

Danny Lynch, site manager, gives a tour of a solar array Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the Blue Jay solar and storage plant in Iola. Solar panels supplied more electricity than coal-fired power plants to the power grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas for the first month ever March 2024.

Pumpjacks operate next to large wind turbines Friday, July 8, 2022, near Midland.

Try as some Texas Republicans might, the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner and more efficient energy sources is underway, and our state is a leader and economically better for it.

Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and GOP members of Congress rarely utter the phrase climate change, and when they do, they either pretend humans are not responsible or call it a hoax. What’s indisputable, though, is the massive investment in Texas by those dedicated to slowing global warming.

My colleague James Osborne recently reported from Washington that clean energy jobs in Texas grew by 6% last year, the second-fastest rate in the country behind Idaho. Clean energy........

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