Texas is the state with the most wind energy in the US?
42,933km2 Denmark has 6GW wind energy capacity and 695,662km2 Texas has 31GW. That doesn't sound very impressive.
42,933km2 Denmark has 6GW wind energy capacity and 695,662km2 Texas has 31GW. That doesn't sound very impressive.
1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/solar-power-booms-in-texas-1160...
2. https://um.dk/en/news/newsdisplaypage/?newsid=25147b44-3dce-...
Edit: Of course, it's 5x the wind power. For solar power in Texas and Denmark the difference is about 4x - 4,324.3 versus 1,079 MW [3, 4] so the point stands that Texas still has a way to go relative to the resources available to them.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_dur...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark#Climate
“Percentage of energy generated” is probably better, but per-capita is better than per-acre. Broadly speaking, people use power, not cornfields.
Why not set the baseline with Mercury? That's an entire planet with much more solar capacity than any measly desert!
Getting back into the real world (and the original point, although accidentally I think you've made my point that energy generated per-capita isn't relevant) and putting aside that there are actual thoughts to build a solar farm in the north Sahara [1]...
Texas has lots of surface area currently used by agriculture so while it's cute to suggest cornfields don't need electrical power there's a conversation about whether there's space which could productively generate power and send it over the grid which the rest of the state (and through HVDC interconnects, the rest of North America) is connected to?
1: https://theconversation.com/solar-panels-in-sahara-could-boo...