How Texas became America's clean energy leader
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Of all the states in the country, Texas is the leader when it comes to wind and solar renewable energy. What lessons can we learn by looking to Texas?
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| 0:29.6 | My name is John Davis. I'm here with my son, Samuel Davis, here, and we're at Stony Lonesome Ranch. |
| 0:35.8 | They're here in central Texas. |
| 0:46.3 | John Davis's family has been on Texas land since 1868. His great, great-grandparents came over from Germany and became ranchers. A few decades later, the family started another ranch 30 miles away. |
| 0:52.9 | That one, Stony Lonesome Ranch. This is my ranch, and I'm raising |
| 0:58.0 | some of my wago cattle back here, and we are on a, and we also have some Dorpers. We're going to go |
| 1:06.0 | look at those and some Spanish goats, but this has been the family, this particular ranch since 1902, and this |
| 1:14.1 | is an honor to be able to show it off. We have some wind turbines in the background. Then we have our |
| 1:18.0 | water windmill over here to the, over here. That's John talking in an online video. And behind him |
| 1:25.6 | are grazing cattle. |
| 1:29.4 | John's raising something else on the land. |
| 1:32.7 | Profits from windpower. |
| 1:39.8 | This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. |
| 1:44.0 | Back at home, John Davis described the land in more detail to us. |
| 1:49.7 | It's rolling hills. It's in the Edwards Plateau region, central west Texas. |
| 1:56.1 | We have a lot of live oaks, a lot of mesquites, a lot of cactus, a lot of rocks. |
| 1:59.5 | You can run the cow about every 25 acres. |
| 2:06.2 | It's, you know, semi-arid, but we do get around 22 to 24 inches of rain a year. |
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