A Year of the IRA in Texas: More Solar, Storage, Jobs, and Investment

In Texas alone, in its first year the Inflation Reduction Act has created more than $10 billion in investment, nearly 9,000 jobs, and has increased deployment of solar and storage

Credit: OCI/ Mission Solar, San Antonio

Texas seems to beat three records on a weekly or even daily basis this summer, regularly setting highs in temperatures, electricity demand, and solar generation. 

We are, in other words, Ground Zero for the problems that the Inflation Reduction Act seeks to solve and the benefits it seeks to create.

A year ago, Congr…