By Elena Bou, Contributor
What comes to mind when you think of Texas? Friday night football under floodlights, wide horizons, brisket and country music – a fierce sense of independence. But also oil derricks against a burnt-orange sky and refineries lining the Gulf Coast.
Energy abundance is woven deep into the state’s identity. What is changing now is how that abundance is being produced. Texas is building one of the largest new energy systems in the Western world – not because it turned politically green, but because market forces are making clean energy the fastest and most scalable way to meet surging demand.
This shift is economic, not ideological.
