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For five hours on Sunday, a third of Texas was powered by the sun.

Solar power feeding into the Texas energy grid set two records on January 28th. Production hit 15,222 MW at around 10am, and at 3:10pm, solar power met 36.1 percent of electricity demand, a new peak. Solar met around a third of overall demand every hour from 11am to 4pm.

This doesn’t even count rooftop solar. The sun, y’all!

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