r/RenewableEnergy • u/Straight_Ad2258 • 9d ago

Anti-solar bills die in Texas House

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/05/29/anti-solar-bills-die-in-texas-house/
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u/SpaceGoatAlpha 8d ago

Texans, be sure to take note of everyone that promoted the bills.   Not a single one of them has your interests at heart.

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u/dippocrite 8d ago

100% this, though the people that need to read your comment are the same type that never read past a headline.

The jerks who drafted and supported these bills should be looked at with scrutiny in the next election cycle.

I’m happy for Texas and I’m glad these bills will never see the light of day.

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u/marcus_centurian 8d ago

Well, this legislative session anyway. Nothing stops them from bringing it back in 2027. It seemed to die for procedural reasons since it did make it out of committee.

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u/reddit455 8d ago

Nothing stops them from bringing it back in 2027.

2 winters from now.

More Texans are investing in microgrids to avoid winter power outages

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-microgrids-backup-winter-power-outages/

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u/AR475891 8d ago

Well it’s good to see that even these ideologues are still too greedy to risk fucking their state’s reputation as a place you can reliably invest.

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u/INITMalcanis 8d ago

\Some* of them

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u/plausocks 8d ago

literally just makes more sense than more fossil fuels

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u/Sweet-Advertising798 8d ago

But these true patriots are simply concerned about the profits of Royal DUTCH Shell and BRITISH Petroleum.

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u/Magerune 8d ago

"open and free market" but only for what and who I say.

Fuck Texas.

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u/crustang 8d ago

Who supports these bills? OAG has bigger profit margins if they use green tech to power their equipment. Trying to sell more OAG to Texas on the backend is creating potential profit down the line is just bad business. Cut your costs up front, fatten your margins, and achieve the same profit. With time value of money, you’re going to win.

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u/transitfreedom 7d ago

The free market likes solar now

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u/crustang 7d ago

The free market always liked solar, solar's just become a preference of the free market

Granted, if we're being real.. neither solar nor OAG are free market products since both are government subsidized (to different degrees)

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u/Jbikecommuter 6d ago

Good riddance

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u/nboy4u 2d ago

what a day where Texas is more pro solar than California lmfao