Canary Media: "Chart: Which states rank highest for utility-scale solar?" Texas may have installed more solar capacitythan any other state in the year 2023—but more solar panels do not necessarily make for a sustainable energy grid— since methane gas + coal still account for 57% of Texas power. As you can see in the graphic, Nevada at 29% solar actually ranks #1 in the proportion of utility-scale solar, California + Utah are runners-up, while Texas only ranks 13th. So there you go Lone Star state, still a lot of work to do to get to a sustainable grid. Nevada is overachieving because "its ambitious renewable portfolio standard mandates that 34% of the electricity supplied by the state’s utilities comes from renewables in 2024, 42% in 2027, and 50% by 2030." Perhaps I should remind you that target is only a bit over 5 yrs from now. "California — which comes in second with just over 21 percent solar capacity on its grid — has adopted even more ambitious clean-energy mandates: 60 percent of the state’s electricity must come from zero-carbon sources by 2030 and 100 percent by 2045." And who's in last place? "At the very bottom of the list is North Dakota, which has no utility-scale solar." But that is about to change, since the Solar Energy Industries Association projects the state will install close to 90 megawatts of utility-scale solar in 2027. But 90 MW is less than 1/10th of a gigawatt, so not impressive yet. "Large-scale solar has taken hold most dramatically in big western states with lots of open space, but not exclusively. Heavily forested Vermont, for example, still manages to source nearly 17% of its electric capacity from utility solar." I suspect Vermont's recurrent flooding is part of their motivation to clean up their grid + fight deterioration of the global climate. The combination of solar plus 100-day iron-air batteries is cheaper, faster + easier to accomplish than nuclear, you can bet your bottom dollar on that proposition.