Op-Ed: “More Rooftop Solar, Less Red Tape”

Photo by NewSaetiew / Getty Images Dallas Should Adopt Department of Energy App to Speed Solar Permitting. TXSES Executive Director Patrice “Pete” Parsons co-wrote this excellent article published in The Dallas Morning News with Ian Seamans of Environment Texas. Power outages affecting 325,000 people in southeast Texas and 650,000 in North Texas at the end of May were a further […]

Solar and the 87th Texas Legislature: how’d we do?

by Luke Metzger More Texans are going solar every day. Texas currently has enough solar energy capacity installed to power the equivalent of more than one million homes.  Yet we’re still not even close to reaching solar’s potential. Every year, enough sunlight shines on Texas to provide 100 times more power than we need. Unfortunately, […]