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Say what you will about the Texas energy grid (and many exercise that right on a daily basis), but Texas is being noticed for making significant headway on its use of renewables — not just in wind-generated electricity where its long been a leader, but this time in solar.

Preqin, the alternative investments data analysts, noticed last week that solar had surpassed coal in the state’s generation of utility scale electricity. That milestone was reached for the first time in March, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, but the irony apparently took some time to settle in.