- With comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation, we could create as many as 165,000 jobs in Texas and save households up to $1,814 per year.
- Texas ranks first in the nation for installed wind capacity and second in the nation for its wind resource potential, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
- Texas ranks first in the nation in solar resource potential, according to the state’s Energy Conservation Office.
- Texas is one of seven states partnering with the Department of Energy and the Western Governors’ Association to install concentrating solar power systems, which focus mirrors on a column of fluid to generate electricity. The program’s overall goal is to install 1,000 megawatts of new concentrating solar in the southwestern United States by 2010.
- Texas requires electricity producers install 5,880 megawatts of renewable energy power capacity by 2015, including 500 megawatts from a renewable energy resource other than wind.
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Clean Energy: A Good Deal for Texas
Want to know how clean energy will benefit your state?
Posted on March 19, 2010
Check out our latest state-by-state clean energy fact sheets. Clean energy investments will bring us new jobs and help households save money — in all 50 states.
First clean energy grants from Recovery Act are paying off with jobs
Posted on September 1, 2009
Today, the U.S. Energy and Treasury Departments announced $500 million towards more than 2,000 construction and manufacturing jobs that Energy Secretary Steven Chu said “will help double our renewable energy capacity over the next few years.”
