Texas refineries produce more than 4.7 million barrels of oil per day. Houston has more than 3,000 energy-related employers. Texas has about 200 chemical plants, which manufacture 14 percent of the nation’s value chemical output.
America’s energy future is taking shape in Texas, and it looks like a wind turbine.
Texas is renowned as the center of the nation’s oil and gas industry, which along with abundant coal continues to supply the country with dependable energy. But the Lone Star State also leads the country and most of the world in wind energy, which is bringing clean, renewable power to homes, businesses and schools and creating jobs across the state.
When representatives of RRE Austin Solar say sunshine is hot in Texas, they don’t mean the temperature outside. They’re talking about the state’s fast-growing solar power industry and their company’s ability to turn sunshine into electricity.