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The boom of solar and wind energy in Texas is helping to support the state’s growing energy demand, and Republican lawmakers and legacy gas-fired power generators are losing ground in their efforts to squash its growth.

“At this point the legislature can’t do anything to stop the growth of solar and wind and batteries,” Ed Hirs, an economist and energy fellow at the University of Houston, told the outlet. “The state desperately needs it.”
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