There are some interesting lessons to be learned here. It seems having lots of near-empty space is driving this. Solar is being built in poorer rural areas with low planning and permitting requirements. More densely populated places can’t always take such an approach easily, but it points to the fact that planning authorization may be placing a bottleneck on reducing climate change damage.

As usual, this is somewhat misleading. Texas’s amount of solar generation is just a factor of its sheer size. In terms of the percentage of energy generated by solar, California generates around 3x more than Texas