Renewable Energy Is Booming in Texas. Republicans Want to Change That.

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56% : Representative Jared Patterson, a Republican from suburban Dallas, called it leveling "the playing field," as he lamented the "multiple advantages in the market" enjoyed by renewable energy, at least for now.
54% : "You either believe in a free market, or you don't, right?" For years, Texas maintained its freewheeling attitude toward energy development even as other states have been issuing more restrictions on power plants.
53% : But he does not believe the solution is to restrict renewable energy.
51% : And William W. Hogan, who helped design the Texas electricity market and is now a professor of global energy policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, said the push to favor fossil fuel generation would most likely further drive up costs, without increasing reliability.
49% : "If I tried to limit wind energy and say, 'Oh, I don't want the wind energy to happen,' am I not doing the same thing that they're doing in California by trying to limit fossil fuels?" Mr. Stitt asked in an interview.
48% : In Oklahoma, where companies have announced plans to invest $2 billion in wind, solar and battery projects since 2022, anti-renewable Republican legislators and the state's attorney general are squaring off against Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican who considers himself pro-business.
47% : The one-two punch underscores the Republicans' move away from embracing an "all-of-the-above" approach to energy to a one-sided effort to return to fossil fuels.
44% : But on Tuesday, Republicans in Congress began work on legislation that would roll back tax credits for low-carbon energy, using rules that ensure the bill could reach President Trump with simple majorities in the House and Senate.
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40% : Bills restricting renewable energy sources would compound existing risks, Pablo Vegas, the chief executive of ERCOT, said this month.
40% : New wind projects, for instance, would be required to be set back at least 3,000 feet from neighboring property lines, and state regulators would be allowed to veto new renewable energy installations.
23% : Start free trial Energy Department to Repeal Efficiency Rules for Appliances Trump's Plan to Take Jet From Qatar Heightens Corruption Concerns President Trump's Visit to the Middle East White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump: What We Know Legislation that has already passed the State Senate would create a new permitting process for renewable energy projects.

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