Renewable investors in Texas breathed a sigh of relief after the Texas legislature failed to pass a suite of bills that could have dramatically slowed development in the sector. The three so-called “anti-renewable” bills targeted both new and existing non-dispatchable energy generation across the state—in other words, solar, battery and wind projects.
The bills, which passed the state senate earlier this year, would have been a gut punch to the state’s renewables sector if they had been signed into law, Bracewell’s Bryan Clark told Infralogic.
“A combination of the bills together would have made development of renewable projects difficult, if not economically unfeasible, in Texas,” said Clark. “With the non-passage of these bills, the sense about at least the solar industry is that they’re going to be still able to move forward.”
